Portrait of an Arab youth ... Type:unstretched canvasPortrait of an Arab youth and a boy standing in an open area in front of a stone wall in the city of Abha. Both the boy and the youth each hold a short sword. 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.
watercolour and pencil on paper
This image was taken during Wilfred Thesiger's week and a half long sailing trip around the Abu Dhabi Islands with Sheikh Hazaa bin Sultan Al Nahyan
A falconer in a light coloured thobe (long shirt) topped with a cartridge belt holds a peregrine falcon on a mangalah (cuff) on one arm
Wilfred Thesiger wears a cartridge belt on leather suspenders over his white thobe (shirt) and a plain headscarf topped with an 'agal (head rope)
Behind the grove softly rolling dunes stretch along the horizon
In the foreground a man carrying a young boy and two women stand in a narrow street lined with shops
one of Wilfred Thesiger's Bedouin guides
The jewellery is very heavy with the earrings being made of gold and turquoise and the amulet made of gold
This young woman was attending a New Year party at the Dekyi Lingka
In the far right background a second camel lies couched in the sand
View of a small dhow being launched by a group of men at Abu Dhabi
A flag files from a flagpole atop the tower
