Seated portrait of a tribesman ... Portraits of notable people

Seated portrait of a tribesman ... Portraits of notable peopleSeated portrait of a tribesman from one of the Qara tribes in the Jabal Qara mountains. The man kneels in the foreground with a large cloth wrapped across his lap. 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.

In the far background dry tufts of vegetation grow in the sand

facing forward

Nearby another man and a few camels wander across a vast dry wadi dotted with sparse bushes

holding a peregrine falcon perched on a mangalah (cuff) he wears on his hand

The well is topped with a wooden frame built from date palm logs

In the foreground two men over the sail

the great chorten and the Palkor Chode Monastery

taken from near the top of the Kachi Kuni Pass

walking across flat terrain near Lake Tana

one of Wilfred Thesiger's bodyguards

Full length group portrait of Sheikh Mubarak bin Mohammed Al Nahyan standing with retainers of Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan in Al Ain

sitting on a dead buffalo