Seated portrait of an Arab ... Portraits of notable people

Seated portrait of an Arab ... Portraits of notable peopleSeated portrait of an Arab falconer, a member of Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan's hunting party, holding a peregrine falcon in Al Khatam sands near Jebel Hafeet (Jabal Hafit). A man kneels in sand dotted with small shoots of vegetation with a peregrine falcon perched on his mangalah (cuff). He wears a patterned ghutra (headscarf) with frayed edges tied tightly around his head and a thobe (long shirt) cinched with a cartridge belt. He holds the cuff

Behind them a flock of sheep and goats waits behind the well

a samurai and officer (performing the function of deputy secretary) on the 1864 Ikeda mission to France

The market at Abha in front of Al Shada Palace

He has been adorned with woman's earrings and an ostrich feather headdress with small birds hanging from the back of the neck

Portrait of two girls

He wears a ghutra (headscarf) wrapped closely around his head and a khanjar (dagger) on a cartridge belt over his coloured thobe (long shirt)

She has applied a beauty spot to her forehead

Each man is holding a rifle

Portrait of a Samburu boy sitting on a rock at the edge of a pool of water

Muhammad bin Fadil's ghutra (headscarf) is blown back behind his shoulders by the wind and he holds a camel stick up in the air with one hand

holding a falcon in the sands near Al Ain

holding a peregrine falcon in Al Khatam sands near Jebel Hafeet (Jabal Hafit)