Building a mashuf Frame:black

Building a mashuf Frame:blackView of pieces of wood laid out on the ground, the first stage in the building of a mashuf (canoe), being looked over by several young men (including Amara bin Thuqub, the tallest of the group). 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.

rope and other items lie on the sand around them and in the boat

View of Wilfred Thesiger's party at a well in the plains below Hamrat ad Duru

a large double masted dhow (sailboat) from India

All the women wear sheila (head cloths) over their upper bodies

the rightmost of which are propped open

carrying gourds

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

dry bushes and dunes

The falcon perches on the mangalah facing forward

One member of the party is crouched inside the opening of the well

moored at Bahrain Island

View of a two dhows (sailboats) beached on the Corniche in the town of Abu Dhabi