Portrait of an elderly man ... Portraits of notable people

Portrait of an elderly man ... Portraits of notable peoplePortrait of an elderly man of the Yam tribe at the settlement of Badr. 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.

Baggage camels follow along behind the men's mounts

Muhammad hosted Wilfred Thesiger and his men at this encampment for a number of days during Wilfred Thesiger's first crossing of the Empty Quarter (Rub' al Khali)

and porcelain cups

while a second man walks across the flat in the far distance

Behind the saluki Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan (far left) rides at the head of a line of falconers and a young boy riding camels

with a building in the foreground

while the building on the right is topped with a layer of adobe and parallel lines of raqf (slate) tiles to prevent weather erosion

He is wearing a broad-brimmed straw hat

A group of Luo men and women

In the near distance three men ride camels in a line across a vast flat plain from the near left to the far right background

one of which also has a wind tower

In the background thick vegetation grows