Fartus men spear fishing Type:unstretched canvas

Fartus men spear fishing Type:unstretched canvasView of men in boats, spear fishing on Umm al Abid. Each of the boats has one man standing in the bow holding a long five pronged spear. 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.

Behind him three camels stand around the trough

View of an abra (ferry boat) launch at Dubai Creek

with four people standing beside its entrance

He wears a dark thobe (long shirt) and a plain ghutra (headscarf)

He holds a camel stick in one hand and a falcon in the other

On the far right a tribesman of the Wahiba Bedouin sits holding a camel stick

gathered in a circle

Prince Hasan bin Yahya

View of the Chamar valley

In the background lies a creek and in the far distance the Ru'us Al Jibal mountains rise high above the horizon

Each of the three men wears a thobe (long shirt) and a headscarf (ghutra) topped with agal (head ropes)

while several people look on