Sheikh Zayed with falcon Type:unstretched canvas

Sheikh Zayed with falcon Type:unstretched canvasPortrait of Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan, sitting astride a saddled camel, holding a peregrine falcon on his left arm. 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.

The ocean surrounding the boom is choppy with a few whitecaps

A dhow sails directly into the foreground

Three of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling companions

In the central foreground a low ridge is marked by a large

with people on the beach in the foreground

rides at the front of a group of five camel riders

large double masted dhows (sailboats) built in Kuwait

View of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party in the Dhafara sands in the Empty Quarter (Rub' al Khali)

Group portrait of a line of men waiting to dance in a circumcision ceremony in An Namas

wearing wigs

A peregrine falcon perches on a carved wooden wakir (block) staked in the sand

The man on the left is Hamdo Ouga