Portrait of two sailors on ... India

Portrait of two sailors on ... IndiaPortrait of two sailors on the deck of a dhow (sailboat) in Dubai Creek. On the left a man wearing a headscarf and a wraparound skirt stands holding on to the ship's tiller. Behind him another sailor, wearing a shirt and a wraparound skirt, stands nearby on the right. In the background the dhow's sails are tied to the yard and a crate sits on deck. Due to the nature of these images, prints will reproduce any signs of age, wear or damage that occurred

According to James Stevenson's original note for this photograph (prepared circa 1885)

View of one of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party at a Manasir encampment in Baynunah sands

View of a crowd of shoppers and traders from the 'Amara tribe at the Suq ath Thulutha market

Group portrait of five boys

facing directly foreward

A number of men are loading their camels

In the foreground a peregrine falcon perches facing forward on a carved wooden wakir (block)

Their headdresses of animal fur and ostrich plumes are typical of the period

three of whom are standing holing poling sticks

better known as Pedro Jose Quivera)

View overlooking a broad section of the Wadi 'Aydim

taken from the (seventeenth-century) castle of Fasilidas