View of a Bedouin man ... Frame:gold

View of a Bedouin man ... Frame:goldView of a Bedouin man standing beside a palm at the Ad Dibin palm groves. 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.

Full length standing portrait of Ahmed

Salih and Raikan accompanied Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party from Al Ain to Al Dhafra sands

In the background a steep rock outcrop juts above the plain

one of Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan's retainers

Procession of the "Eight Great Kings" during the Sertreng Festival in 1921

Behind the grove softly rolling dunes stretch along the horizon

a sheikh of the Sh'asha lineage of the Bayt Kathir Bedouin and a member of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party

and holding a spear and ambatch parrying shield in his left hand

Behind them the sea stretches out uninterrupted to the far horizon

with his mate (named Ahmed) standing behind him

Profile portrait of a camel

the corner of which can be seen on the right