Nuristani man John K. Hillers

Nuristani man John K. HillersPortrait of a young man, sitting. 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.

In the right background a single storey stone building sits along the far edge of the square

rowboats covered with cloth canopies

View of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party resting in the Jaub depression in desert of the Empty Quarter (Rub' al Khali)

Sitting and standing on carpet

In the far distance beyond Jebel Hafeet (Jabal Hafit) rises high above the flat plain in the far right distance

In the foreground a moored dhow (sailboat) sits in the middle of Dubai Creek

In the central foreground Said bin Musallim

and further back the mountain Jebel Hafeet (Jabal Hafit) is visible

Behind it two sailors stand facing the ship's mast

and his head is covered by a headscarf

The camel belongs to an Abu Dhabi sheikh and has been left to pasture on this island

a soldier of the Royalist forces