Harasis woman with a mask Pakistan

Harasis woman with a mask PakistanPortrait of a woman, sitting, holding a black mask in front of her face. 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.

a sheikh of the Bin Maaruf nomads (of Hatim section of the Saar tribe)

The baby is Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan

View of one of the dhows (sailboats) on which Wilfred Thesiger sailed through the Abu Dhabi islands with Sheikh Hazaa bin Sultan Al Nahyan and his retainers

the carving is now understood by scholars to represent a Cosmic Monster with a mountain on its back

View of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party watering camels at a well at the southern end of Jabal Hafit (Jebel Hafeet)

the second from the main mast

known as the Kumbum

with people collecting water at the wells in the foreground

In the foreground a wave rolls up on the beach

In the foreground a man and a baby sit on a carpet in sand

A peregrine falcon perches on a carved wooden wakir (block) staked in the sand on the crest of a sand dune

with their falcon and its quarry