View of a dhow (sailboat) ... Frame:gold

View of a dhow (sailboat) ... Frame:goldView of a dhow (sailboat) moored in the Persian Gulf near Bahrain Island. In the foreground a large dhow with two masts sits in calm water rippled by gentle waves. A rowboat is lashed to the keel of the boat, high above the water. Two large cloth canopies shade the deck of the dhow, beneath which many men rest. In the right background a few dhows are moored, and further behind stone houses can be seen lining the shore. This image was taken during

cruciform in shape

The young boy on the right

stands in the foreground at the centre of the well (second from the right)

armlets and anklets) of the period are all in evidence

Behind them a barren plain stretches to meet a low hill in the far distance

Portrait of an elderly bearded man

the first stage in the building of a mashuf (canoe)

Beyond the salt-flat more wind-rippled dunes

The man has a long beard and wears a coloured thobe (shirt) topped with a khanjar (dagger) and a headscarf tied with an 'agal (head rope)

and his children

A second camel stands on the right

some of them from Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party