View of dhows (sailboats) moored ... Jacques-Philippe Potteau

View of dhows (sailboats) moored ... Jacques-Philippe PotteauView of dhows (sailboats) moored in Dubai Creek. In the foreground a young man sits on the wooden skeleton of a scavenged dhow. In the creek behind large and small dhows are moored in the water. In the far background houses line the far side of the creek. 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.

the son of Salih

The building is three storeys tall and it has a number of small windows

People in front of the fort at Buraymi

flat sea fills the horizon

He wears a cartridge belt and leather suspenders over his thobe (long shirt) and has a ghutra (headscarf) wrapped around his head

Muhammad bin Fadil's ghutra (headscarf) is blown back behind his shoulders by the wind and he holds a camel stick up in the air with one hand

past two and three storey stone buildings fronted with wooden balconies

with a man standing outside the doorway

while the building on the right is topped with a layer of adobe and parallel lines of raqf (slate) tiles to prevent weather erosion

Four falconers holding peregrine falcons sit on their camels in a vast expanse of flat sand dotted with tufts of qassis (sedge) and other vegetation

In the distance beyond large rock cliffs frame the harbour

standing in a doorway