Madan men poling a tarada Special Orders

Madan men poling a tarada Special OrdersView of Wilfred Thesiger's tarada (sheikh's canoe), in which there are six people, four of whom are standing holding poling sticks. 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.

a MacQueen's Bustard

In the foreground trees grow amongst farm fields

Behind him 'Amair bin 'Omar (centre) and Salim bin Kabina (left) follow on their camels

In the distance beyond the mountain Jabal Hafit (Jebel Hafeet) rises high above the horizon

The Potala Palace from the south west

Men sit crowded together on the deck of the dhow

gathered around a dead wild boar

Sheikh Zayed with a falcon at Buraimi

View of a large dune in the Dhafara sands in the Empty Quarter (Rub' al Khali)

Some of the buildings are topped with adobe and parallel lines of raqf (slate) tiles to prevent weather erosion

past a sand bank and the many moored dhows that line the shore

wearing a lion's mane headdress