Suaid men constructing a house Alfred Maudslay

Suaid men constructing a house Alfred MaudslayView of a raba (house) being built, with bundles of giant reeds, or qasab [phragmites communis], being bent to form the supporting arches. 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.

a member of Wilfred Thesiger's party

Five people on steps

Interior view of the unfinished mudhif (guest house) belonging to Raudha

Seated portrait of Muhammad bin Al Jabari

View of a city square in the city of Jeddah or At Taif

In the foreground a few tufts of vegetation grow on the side of a sand dune rippled by the wind

View of houses with wind towers in Dubai

gently rippled water

He wears a thobe (long shirt) crossed with leather bandoliers attached to a cartridge belt and an embroidered ghutra (headscarf)

View of a flock of flamingoes on a lake

View of people at Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan's encampment near Jebel Hafeet [Jabal Hafit]

In the foreground one of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling companions walks with his camel across a flat rocky plain