View of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling ... Size:large

View of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling ... Size:largeView of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party watering their camels at Hanun well. 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 peregrine's beak is open

dancing the hausa (tribal war dance)

In the foreground water ripples on the dark surface of Dubai Creek

while in the distance many other trees and plants grow on a rocky flat

with snow-capped mountains in the distance

The boy is smiling and wears a plain ghutra (headscarf) tied around his head and a light coloured thobe (shirt)

In the background a field of grain is surrounded by a high wall dotted with watchtowers

showing the round-walled watchtower

Two men stand in the centre of the boat

Profile portrait of a peregrine falcon (shahin)

wearing large embroidered headscarves and light coloured shirts (thobe) are members of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party

In the right foreground sailors stand on top of a moored dhow