Portrait of a man of ... Special Orders

Portrait of a man of ... Special OrdersPortrait of a man of the Mutayr tribe. He has a curved dagger in his belt. 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.

View of members of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party men butchering a camel in the Shi'b al Raqq near the Haij well

Portrait of a small boy in Dubai

He has a long thick beard and wears a light thobe (long shirt) with a plain ghutra (headscarf) tied around his head

View of camels belonging to Wilfred Thesiger's party watering at a falaj (irrigation channel) at the southern end of Jabal Hafit

At the far left a forth member of the party kneels in the background on the stoney ground

and a headscarf topped with a thick light 'agal (head rope)

On the right two young boys are loading a small donkey

In the near foreground a pile of gravel sits in front of a small fort with two watchtowers

woollen hat

Musallim bin Al Kamam wears a dark ghutra (headscarf) wrapped around his head and a thobe (long shirt) cinched with a cartridge belt

Behind the well a line of tree grows along a dune

lie on the shore and a number of people walk across the sand