Arab boy wearing a conical hat Sue Johnson

Arab boy wearing a conical hat Sue JohnsonPortrait of a boy, sitting on a rock, wearing a plaited conical hat (typical of the Tihama region of Yemen), with mountains in the distance. 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 one of the dhows (sailboats) on which Wilfred Thesiger sailed through the Abu Dhabi islands with Sheikh Hazaa bin Sultan Al Nahyan and his retainers

In the far distance on the right

Portrait of Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan

with giant groundsel in the foreground

In the near distance sits a cluster of one and two storey buildings built from adobe bricks topped with parallel lines of raqf (slate) tiles

In the foreground Warad

Prince Hasan bin Yahya

Three saddled camels are couched on a small patch of sandy ground in a bare rocky plain

A fisherman and a boy stand together beside a large water barrel sitting on the sand

He is wearing a patterned izaar (wraparound skirt)

In the right foreground a line of dhows (sailboats) stretches along the shore

Wilfred Thesiger sits leaning against a mud wall with one arm resting on his knee and a camel stick resting on his shoulder