Portrait of an African slave ... Africa

Portrait of an African slave ... AfricaPortrait of an African slave boy on Shindagha beach in Dubai. A boy wearing a light coloured thobe (shirt) and a ghutra (headscarf) leans on his elbows on the gunwale of a small wooden boat beached on the shore. Behind him the sea stretches out empty and uninterrupted to the far horizon. 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 father of an initiate

the brother of the local arbob (herditary district chief or headman)

In the background cargo containers rest in the sand alongside beached dhows (sailboats)

or Medicine Hill

and a taqiyah cap

with whom Wilfred Thesiger and his Bedouin companions stayed during Wilfred Thesiger's first crossing of the Empty Quarter (Rub' al Khali) in December 1946

Cylindrical Banners

the women's dress will only be discarded at the final ceremony forty days later

In the central foreground a young man sits on a donkey loaded with large clay water jugs

View of two men standing in front of houses in the city of Dubai

View of one of Wilfred Thesiger's Bedouin guides walking across a stoney plain below Jebel Hafeet [Jabal Hafit] mountain

Sideways with Daffodil by Sue Johnson 2011