Portrait of a boy Frame:natural

Portrait of a boy Frame:naturalPortrait of a boy (named Mabarak), one of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party, smiling. 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 man on the right holds onto some ropes attached to the mast

View overlooking the city of Shibam

In the foreground a man walks through a large open area in front of the buildings

stripping meat from a camel bone

View of a dhow (sailboat) and a rowboat moored in Dubai Creek at sunset

decorating himself with red ochre paint

View of dhows (sailboats) beached on the shore at Dubai Creek

Further behind them two saluki hunting dogs rest in the sand beside a clump of vegetation

To the right are two small round towers

a long shirt (thobe)

which is loaded with oyster shells

Men stand in a line in front of a stone wall