Kuwait harbour Iraq

Kuwait harbour IraqThe harbour in Kuwait. Dhows are on the water. In the foreground water skins are loaded onto donkeys. 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.

Portrait of a well dressed young man in the region between Jabal Baydan mountain and the city of At Taif

Portrait of Sheikh Rashid bin Saeed Al Maktoum

or round thatched huts

Seated portrait of a tribesman of the Manasir Bedouin in Al Khatam sands near Al Ain

It is built in the traditional style for this region from adobe bricks topped with parallel lines of raqf (slate) tiles

A falconer in a light coloured thobe (long shirt) topped with a khanjar (dagger) on a leather belt holds a peregrine falcon on a mangalah (cuff) on his arm

with members of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party in the foreground

View of locals walking along a road on the Corniche by Sharjah Creek

pulling a balam (flat bottomed boat) which has its main sail raised

Muhammad bin Fadil kneels on his camel

It has its mouth closed and has a tuft of hair on its neck under its head

and Salim bin Ghabaisha is holding a rifle