Portrait of a young man ... Type:unstretched canvas

Portrait of a young man ... Type:unstretched canvasPortrait of a young man of the Qahtan Bedouin in the region between Jabal Dhahran and the town of Dhahran, near the Yemen Border. 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.

grow in a line along the salt flat amongst scattered salt bushes

his head turned forward

On the left a thoroughbred Omani camel is couched in the sand

In one hand he holds a camel stick

is moored futher back on the left

In the near right foreground two large hadh (Cornulaca monacantha) bushes grow in the sand

Seated portrait of two young boys of the Al Nahyan family sitting in the sand in Al Ain

Sahail bin Tahi has a large grey beard and wears a cartridge belt with leather suspenders over his thobe (long shirt)

In the foreground a wide expanse of sand dotted with two tufts of qassis (sedge) sits in front of a large herd of camels

Trees on the right and mountains in the background

Portrait of Sheikh Ali bin Said bin Rashid of the Yahahif tribe

He has a large grey beard and wears a plain ghutra (headscarf) and a patterned wraparound skirt