Thesiger Collection

Interior view of a mudhif (guest house).Due to the nature of these images, prints will reproduce any signs of age, wear or damage that occurred before they were archived by...

View of two people outside a house in the Marshes.Due to the nature of these images, prints will reproduce any signs of age, wear or damage that occurred before they...

Portrait of a young Samburu man, taken shortly after his circumcision. He still wear the black skin cloak and has been adorned with women's earrings and an ostrich feather headdress...

Group portrait of young men chanting the lebarta, or circumcision song.Due to the nature of these images, prints will reproduce any signs of age, wear or damage that occurred before...

View of a raba (house) being built, with bundles of giant reeds, or qasab [phragmites communis], being bent to form the supporting arches.Due to the nature of these images, prints...

Wide view of some Samburu men building and lighting fires on which the meat of oxen will be roasted during 'The Ceremony of the Arrows' which marks the end of...

View of Samburu initiates dancing at the end of the circumcision rites.Due to the nature of these images, prints will reproduce any signs of age, wear or damage that occurred...

View of a woman, standing, shaving her son's head on the eve of his circumcision, with a man sitting on the ground in the background.Due to the nature of these...

View of a Samburu circumcision camp.Due to the nature of these images, prints will reproduce any signs of age, wear or damage that occurred before they were archived by the...

View of houses at a settlement in the Marshes, with a tarada (sheikh's canoe) prominent in the foreground, and a balam (flat-bottomed boat) being poled forward by a woman behind.Due...

View of Samburu initiates dancing at the end of the circumcision rites.Due to the nature of these images, prints will reproduce any signs of age, wear or damage that occurred...

View of a raba (house) being built, with supporting arches constructed from bundles of giant reeds, or qasab [phragmites communis], joined together at the top.Due to the nature of these...

View of Lawi, a recently circumcised Samburu boy about to butcher an ox during 'The Ceremony of the Arrows' which marks the end of the circumcision rites.Due to the nature...

View of a Samburu circumcision camp with a herd of cattle in the foreground.Due to the nature of these images, prints will reproduce any signs of age, wear or damage...

Portrait of a Samburu man, the father of an initiate, wearing a women's apron and earrings for 'The Ceremony of the Arrows' which marks the end of the circumcision rites.Due...

Close-up portrait of Kendawi, a Samburu initiate ornamented with ochre paint and beaded jewellery around his head during 'The Ceremony of the Arrows' which marks the end of the circumcision...

Portrait of large group of initiates wearing black skin cloaks.Due to the nature of these images, prints will reproduce any signs of age, wear or damage that occurred before they...

View of boats drawn up at Fuhud on the River Gharraf, a tributary of the Euphrates.Due to the nature of these images, prints will reproduce any signs of age, wear...

View of a boy standing on a raft made from bulrushes, holding a poling stick.Due to the nature of these images, prints will reproduce any signs of age, wear or...

Portrait of three young Samburu men, taken shortly after their circumcisions. They still wear the black skin cloak and have also been adorned with woman's earrings and one wears an...