Profile portrait of a guide ... Frame:white

Profile portrait of a guide ... Frame:whiteProfile portrait of a guide in Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party, a tribesman of the Wahiba Bedouin, taken during the party's journey through the upper Wadi al Batha' east of Qabil al Bu Said village. 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.

Group portrait of girls

heading into the distance

Portrait of a naked boy sitting on reeds mats

a centre of the Zoroastrian community

ringed by men watching the action

The Sultan's Palace sits on the right

In the far right distance Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan's hunting party rests in a depression at the bottom of a high sand dune amongst large bushes

sometimes known as the Western Gateway

as it was first described by Alfred Maudslay in his seminal publication of the Quirigua site in his multi-volume Archaeology (1889-1902)

being led by several boys with drawn daggers

A middle-aged man with a long dark beard stands in the foreground beside a camel

leading three camels behind him