Half length portrait of an ... Frame:natural

Half length portrait of an ... Frame:naturalHalf length portrait of an Arab boy in the region near Jazirat Al Hamra in Ras Al Khaimah Emirate. The boy stands facing forward, holding a stick in his hands. He is wearing a plain headscarf and a thobe (shirt). 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.

rolling dunes

takes a photograph of an official at the ceremony to mark the return of the Reting Rinpoche to Lhasa

Salim bin Turkia

possibly a sabkha (salt flat)

and in the far distance mountains rise above the horizon

A high plateau rises in the right distance

with members of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party resting in the foreground

Small clumps of vegetation grow scattered across the dune

trying to take the camera from the photographer

also the interior court around which the houses are built

while in the far background of rolling sands

one of which is eating from a bush