View of the Shindagha district ... Size:small

View of the Shindagha district ... Size:smallView of the Shindagha district from Dubai Creek. In the foreground a small boat and a large, heavily loaded dhow (sailboat) are beached in the sand. Behind the boats a number of people stand in the sand by piles of coral, used for building houses, which lie on the shore. In the left distance a large enclave of 'arish huts and enclosures made from palm fronds sit in the sand. In the central distance a square stone watchtower, the Shindagha, rises high

a tribesman of the Awamir Bedouin

and behind them another four rowboats are beached on rocky sand

View of a gorge

on the upper deck of the Nile steamer Kereri

In the distance beyond a salt flat (sabkha)

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

are docked in a line along the creek in a break between two houses

More houses are behind it

A man is sitting at the water's edge

The men haul water from the well via ropes and pulleys attached to the wooden frame over the well

He is wearing a waistcoat over his thobe and holds a rifle

All three men are tribesmen of the Bayt Imani lineage of Rashid Bedouin