Saar nomad Images of Sheikh Zayed

Saar nomad Images of Sheikh ZayedPortrait of an elderly Bin Maaruf nomad (of the Saar tribe) 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.

Full length standing portrait of two Arab men in front of a rock wall in Dubai

In the foreground four men and a young boy (centre) unload couched camels in the midst of a vast flat plain dotted with scattered clumps of vegetation

Houses at the village of 'Arish

In the background Jebel Kawr rises high above the flat in the far distance

The young boy kneeling in front of Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan may be Sheikh Tahnoun bin Mohammed Al Nahyan

Portrait of a man (named Alaiwa)

4 Ahau 13 Ceh (Maya calendar)

with limestone cliffs rising up in the distance

Both the boy and the youth each hold a short sword

View of one of Wilfred Thesiger's Bedouin companions standing in front of Al Jahili fort in Al Ain

Nearby a woman stands wearing a tall woven straw hat

Portrait of a youth (named Lawi Leboyare) after his circumcision