View of a group of ... Jacques-Philippe Potteau

View of a group of ... Jacques-Philippe PotteauView of a group of palm traders and buyers at an open air market in the city of Sabya. In the foreground a group of men in loincloths stand beside large round bundles of palm leaves. In the distance beyond a number of men and women mill about amongst traders in the midst of the market. 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.

The rider is the party's guide

View of Wilfred Thesiger's party at a well in the plains below Hamrat ad Duru

Some of the men's camels are nibbling on a bush

and headscarves topped with black head ropes (agal)

dotted by clumps of qassis (sedge)

located on a tributary of the Rio Grande river

a square stone and coral fort that has a high round watchtower topped with a flagpole on its near corner

Further beyond

View of the landscape in the region between the cities of At Taif and Qalat Bishah

On the right a man in a light coloured thobe (shirt) walks past a camel and troughs built of sand

two standing and one sitting

Seated portrait of Sheikh Saqr bin Mohammed Al Qasimi