Boom sailing up the Persian Gulf Type:unstretched canvas

Boom sailing up the Persian Gulf Type:unstretched canvasView of a boom (large boat, a type of dhow) sailing up the Persian Gulf, returning from Zanzibar to its home port of Kuwait. 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.

four adults and boy

who accompanied Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party from 'Izz to Al Muwaiji

View of a house at a settlement in the Marshes

The boy on the left wears a khanjar (dagger) on a belt over his thobe (long shirt) and a headscarf (ghutra)

Its mouth is slightly open and the tuft of hair on its neck is blown to the right by the wind

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

View of a large square in the city of Abha

holding a block on which sits a saker falcon

View of the Shindagha district from Dubai Creek

A small canoe is towed behind the dhow

Full-length group portrait of Wilfred Thesiger standing with Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan

In the left distance a large enclave of 'arish huts and enclosures made from palm fronds sit in the sand