View of a Qara tribesman ... Special Orders

View of a Qara tribesman ... Special OrdersView of a Qara tribesman standing in a clearing in Wadi Nihiz in the Jabal Qara mountains. In the near distance a Qara tribesman stands in the midst of a rocky clearing. Grass grows on the rocks and large deciduous trees grow in the background behind him. 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.

All the men are wearing ghutra (headscarves) and thobe (long shirts) with cartridge belts and khanjar (daggers)

View of men gathered with camels

Portrait of sailors rowing a dhow on which Wilfred Thesiger sailed with Sheikh Hazaa bin Sultan Al Nahyan and his retainers

View of the snow-capped Mount Kilimanjaro (5

On the extreme right distance Jabal al Akhdar is just visible above the plain

bundled or made into ropes

View of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party trekking through rocky country during their journey from the Tamniyah mountains to Al 'Abis village

The metal cross on the building was given to the community by Emperor John IV

Group portrait of young men chanting the lebarta

View of one of Wilfred Thesiger's guides in a valley on Jebel Hafeet [Jabal Hafit] mountain

View of a saddled thoroughbred Batina camel belonging to Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan

Crowds of onlookers are in the foreground