Full length standing portrait of ... Type:unstretched canvas

Full length standing portrait of ... Type:unstretched canvasFull length standing portrait of a man wearing two daggers in straight sheaths over his thobe (shirt) in the city of Abha. The man is wearing his daggers (jambiya or khanjar) in a horizontal manner in a style typical of this region. Al Shada Palace is visible in the background. 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.

wrapped in a blanket

employed as an interpreter of Dutch

Interior view of the ornately carved stonework of one of the five temples in the Dilwara Jain temple complex at Mount Abu

The nearest boom flies three sails

wearing a dagger in a scabbard across his waist

and has tattoos on her hands and chin

In the foreground Sheikh Saqr bin Mohammed Al Qasimi sits on a ledge atop his fort

and its tail feathers standing straight up

In one hand the falconer holds a hood for the falcon

This was the first time that Thesiger had worn Arab dress and he looks slightly uneasy and self-conscious

Equipment and supplies lie scattered around them

a sheikh of the Rashid Bedouin