View of Wilfred Thesiger's party ... IranView of Wilfred Thesiger's party trekking across a vast flat desert during their journey from the lower Wadi Shihan to Shisr well. 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 Pitt Rivers Museum.
View of sailors changing the sails on a dhow (sailboat) travelling through the Persian Gulf from Dubai to Bahrain Island
In the left foreground a falconer wearing a cap and a light coloured thobe (long shirt) bends over next to a standing camel
Behind the launch a house with two wind towers (barjeel) sits along the creek
sheer-sided dune on the left
Seated portrait of one of Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan's falconers sitting with a peregrine falcon in the Al Khatam sands near Al Ain
A number of Manasir men and boys sit in the sand outside the right section of the tent
a tribesman of the Bayt Mbarik lineage of Rashid Bedouin
In the foreground two water sellers head through the tide towards one of two booms
a light coloured thobe (long shirt)
Behind him the large wooden door is decorated with brass strips and heavy rivets
In the background a few clumps of vegetation grow scattered on rolling sand dunes
Behind them a grove of date palms grows beyond a sand ridge
