View of a dhow (sailboat) ... Iran

View of a dhow (sailboat) ... IranView of a dhow (sailboat) under repair at the harbour in Kuwait City. In the near distance a man rides a donkey across the beach. 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.

At the well in Umm al Khashab

View of Wilfred Thesiger's party trekking across dunes near Umm az Zumul well

Three men stand with three camels drinking from a hawd

A falconer wearing a thobe (long shirt) and a ghutra (headscarf) toped with a dark 'agal (head rope) rides side-saddle on a camel facing into the right distance (only the camel's torso is in the frame)

One of Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan's retainers smoking a pipe

In the background sit three small square buildings made of stone

was probably used by John Hillers for carrying his photographic equipment

wind-rippled dune rises in a crescent shape on the left

with people standing and sitting in the foreground

In the background low dunes stretch into the far distance

The older man is Salim bin Kabina's uncle

View of two rowboats in Dubai Creek at sunset