Portrait of six trained falcons ... Arabia

Portrait of six trained falcons ... ArabiaPortrait of six trained falcons and two salukis belonging to Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan's hunting party resting in the sands surrounding Al Ain. In the centre foreground a saker (hurr) falcon preens her feathers while resting on a wakir (block). Behind her five peregrine (shahin) falcons, three of which are wearing hoods, perch on their blocks. Further behind them two saluki hunting dogs rest in the sand beside clumps of vegetation. Due to the

He is sitting cross-legged in the sand next to a small pile of firewood and a mat piled high with chunks of meat

or qasab [phragmites communis]

including the square Shindagha watchtower in the Shindagha district

Half length portrait of an Arab man

with two men standing in the foreground

Portrait of two boys of the Yam tribe taken by Wilfred Thesiger during his journey from the town of Najran to the town of Badr

fetching the bride for a wedding

He wears a Western suit jacket under his bisht

In the background small tufts of vegetation dot sand dunes that rise into rolling ridges and peaks in the distance

Buildings and a minaret at Seiyun

Portrait of a teenaged boy of the Qara tribe kneeling in sand at a pool in the Wadi Darbat

one of them stands at the stern holding a long five-pronged fishing spear