View of an abra (ferry ... Miscellaneous

View of an abra (ferry ... MiscellaneousView of an abra (ferry boat) crossing Dubai Creek. In the foreground a young oarsman rows a covered abra filled with six passengers. Behind the abra 'arish huts, made of palm fronds, and other buildings line the creek. 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.

At the left two sailors pull on a large wooden oar

He has a thick curly beard and wears a coloured thobe (long shirt) and an embroidered ghutra (headscarf)

also made of palm fronds

View looking over a kasbah (fortress and surrounding quarter) in the High Atlas range of mountains

In the background clumps of vegetation grow in the sand

In the near distance a man riding a camel pauses on a low mound of sand

playing a silver church drum which he wears over shoulder

Portrait of a tribesman of the Bayt Kathir Bedouin

A teenage boy stands to the left of his donkey in front of a high house wall

ride across soft rolling sands towards a large salt flat (sabkha)

The effects of sand-drifts are plainly shown in the photographs

View of Wilfred Thesiger's party in the Wadi Jarsis in the Jabal Qara mountains