Portrait of a herds boy ... Size:small

Portrait of a herds boy ... Size:smallPortrait of a herds boy of the Bayt Kathir Bedouin in Dhofar. 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.

while further behind two camels and a second member of the party wait

He wears a cartridge belt with suspenders over his thobe (shirt) and a plain headscarf topped with an 'agal (head rope)

identifying them as currently undergoing the initiation ceremony

View of fishermen on the beach in the town of Ash Shihr

He holds a camel stick in one hand and a falcon in the other

In the distance beyond a sand bank stretches out in front of the ocean in a straight line

sitting on a chair made with ibex horns

Wilfred Thesiger's camel sits couched in the sand facing towards the left

resting on the ground at Al Qaiyah or Ad Dafinah wells

View of a man standing beside a beached dhow (sailboat) in Dubai Creek

which slopes up into a low crest in the background

These are square buildings with small windows