View of Wilfred Thesiger's party ... Images of Sheikh Zayed

View of Wilfred Thesiger's party ... Images of Sheikh ZayedView of Wilfred Thesiger's party riding camels across a vast expanse of sand dotted with vegetation in the Ramlat as Sahmah. This vegetation is the result of winter rain from the previous year. 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.

Seated portrait of an Arab or Bedouin man at Sheikh Zayid bin Sultan Al Nahyan's hunting camp in Al Khatam sands near Al Ain

Salim bin Kabina wears a plain headscarf over his long hair

a representative of the Imam of Oman

In the background a vast flat plain dotted with bushes stretches out into the far distance

The sand is marked by a line of tracks on the right

on the right

Behind him small tufts of vegetation jut out across a vast sand flat from the near foreground into the far distance

Portrait of two boys of the Manahil Bedouin at Fughmah

Behind a round corner tower of Al Fahidi fort rises above the 'arish houses

When the stone point becomes dull it is sharpened by flaking the tip in the same manner that flint arrow points are made

View of two small boats beached on Shindagha beach in Dubai

In the foreground a young boy in a light-coloured waistcoat and thobe (long shirt) stands on the right