Mountains Miscellaneous

Mountains MiscellaneousView of mountains, with vegetation in the foreground. 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.

All the men are wearing ghutra (headscarves) and thobe (long shirts) with cartridge belts and khanjar (daggers)

Carter 42nd

View of Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan's hunting party unloading camels in Al Khatam sands near Al Ain

Although Chapman refers to these masks as being made of papier mache they are more likely to have been carved from hardwood

View of round houses

In the foreground three members of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party stand with their camels by a large tree on a flat plain

On the left one corner of Sheikh Saqr bin Mohammed Al Qasimi's fort sits in the foreground

some with wind towers (barjeel)

In the distance beyond sparse tufts of vegetation dot a vast flat plain

surrounded by grazing sheep

and further back the mountain Jebel Hafeet (Jabal Hafit) is visible

Warad rests beside in the sand at her shoulder