View of dhows (sailboats) moored ... Special Orders

View of dhows (sailboats) moored ... Special OrdersView of dhows (sailboats) moored in Dubai Creek. In the foreground a group of large and small dhows are beached together in shallow water in Dubai Creek. Behind them in the far background dhows line the shore alongside the one and two storey houses overlooking 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.

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and many have wooden grates and bars covering their windows

A third man sits on a rock and watches the action

At the centre of the image a musician beats out a rhythm on a large drum

A few tufts of vegetation grow on the dune's slope behind him

Portrait of Sheikh Khalat

Behind him a vast expanse of flat sand continues from the foreground to jagged mountains in the far distance

Merchants sit at stalls housed in 'arish huts along the left side of the market aisle

Side view of two booms

Sahail bin Tahi

Further along large dhows (sailboats) sit in shallow water and on the beach

on a MacQueen's Bustard that it has killed