View of square multi-storeyed buildings ... Size:medium

View of square multi-storeyed buildings ... Size:mediumView of square multi storeyed buildings clustered close together in the city of Abha. Some of the buildings are topped with adobe and parallel lines of raqf (slate) tiles. In the foreground a man walks through a large open area in front of the buildings. 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.

In the left distance a large enclave of 'arish huts and enclosures made from palm fronds sit below tall buildings

The two men sitting in the centre are falconers in the the hunting party

hunting bear in the mountains above Rust

Wilfred Thesiger stands on the rooftop terrace of a house in Dubai

The rope is attached to a bucket which the man in the centre (Salim bin Kabina

holding the reins of a tethered mule

wrestles with its quarry

Bird and Flower Painting by Sue Johnson 2011

View of terraced and cultivated fields

Below them the dune is bare of all vegetation

View of houses and boats at the edge of Dubai

On the left the peregrine stands with its wings spread wide and its talons clasped on the head or neck of the bustard