Portrait of two palm leaf ... Jacques-Philippe Potteau

Portrait of two palm leaf ... Jacques-Philippe PotteauPortrait of two palm leaf traders at an open air market in the city of Sabya. In the foreground a man and a boy are surrounded by bunches of palm frond leaves stacked in bundles on the ground. Behind them a number of men and women mill amongst palm leaf traders in the market. 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.

Behind them a field of grass sits below a hill covered with small bushes

View of Wilfred Thesiger's party butchering a cow on a hillside in Jabal Qara

Close up portrait of a young boy at the harbour in Kuwait City

A large cloth canopy covers the deck over the stern

View of a member of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party leading three laden camels across the Muqta to Abu Dhabi island

Group portrait of three Bedouin boys at Bir Ali' well

Two of the camels are saddled with large sheepskins

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

In the right background beyond a ridge of low dunes borders the flat in the far distance

on the roof

standing with a camel in the Al Batin sands

on an expedition to hunt wild pigs when the floods were high