Prow of a balam Type:art print

Prow of a balam Type:art printClose up view of the prow of a balam (flat bottomed boat). 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 man wears a ghutra (headscarf) and a plain thobe (shirt) topped with a cartridge belt

a tribesman of the Bayt Imani lineage of Rashid Bedouin and one of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling companions

View of a badan

In the far distance the crests of far dunes sit along the horizon below a vast cloudless sky

when Wilfred Thesiger stayed at Al Muwaiji fort in Al Ain as a guest of Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan

holding a rifle over his shoulder

Half length portrait of Wilfred Thesiger in Arab dress outside of Al Muwaiji Fort in Al Ain

In the far distance beyond Jebel Hafeet (Jabal Hafit) rises high above the flat plain in the far right distance

View of a river flowing down a valley

Portrait of two men at a settlement in the region between the village of 'Ar'arah and Jabal Mana'

View of an ornamented plaster-faced house

The peregrine holds its wings out around the bustard to shield its prey