Seated portrait of a sheikh ... Size:medium

Seated portrait of a sheikh ... Size:mediumSeated portrait of a sheikh from one of the Shahra tribes in the Jabal Qara mountains. The young man kneels in a field of grass, gazing towards the right. He is holding a stick and his long curly hair is tied with a long length of leather. In the background a vast field of grass grows. 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.

Trees grow on the right

Awad bin Khazai poses on a rock face

the buildings of which rise to a height of seven storeys

View of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling loading up their camels in the Sharqiyah Sands

turquoises and corals running down her hair

In the foreground large tufts of qassis (sedge) grow on the slope of a large sand dune

View of a member of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party walking along the crest of a sand dune during the party's journey from Wadi al 'Ayn to the Ramlat al Ghirbaniyat (Ghirbaniyat Sands)

they contain Faleh bin Majid's men

Half length standing portrait of Captain Haji Mansur and one of his sailors working on a dhow (sailboat) in the Persian Gulf near Bahrain Island

Cutter Greyhound

In the far distance beyond rolling sand dunes stretch out along the horizon below a cloudless sky

Behind them