Portrait of Sultan bin Ahmad ... Frame:natural

Portrait of Sultan bin Ahmad ... Frame:naturalPortrait of Sultan bin Ahmad, a member of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party, posing above the Wadi 'Aydim. Sultan bin Ahmad, a tribesman of the Sh'asha lineage of Bayt Kathir Bedouin, stands on rock strewn hillside. He is holding a rifle. In the distance beyond Wadi 'Aydim stretches out behind him. 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

A young boy with a flock of chickens can be seen in the foreground

Portrait of Salim Bin Ghabaisha

leads two laden camels along a high dune ridge

The camel also faces towards the right

In the distance scattered dots of vegetation grow on the sand dunes

Close up portrait of an Arab boy in the region near Jazirat Al Hamra in Ras Al Khaimah Emirate

He wears a large ghutra (headscarf) and a thobe (shirt)

View of a crowd of people of the Fartus tribe

fill the town

gathered for a wedding

The men are crouched around a pile of branches

In the foreground an Arab man wearing a thobe (long shirt) and ghutra (headscarf) stands on the far left of a rocky slope