View of Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan's hawking party riding in Al Khatam sands near Al Ain. A number of men pause on their camels in the midst of a vast flat plain dotted with scattered clumps of vegetation. On the far left a member of the party stands beside his couched camel. The man at the centre, kneeling on his camel and holding a rifle, may be Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan. In the right background beyond a ridge of low dunes borders the flat in the far distance. This image was taken between December 20, 1948, and January 27, 1949, during which time Wilfred Thesiger stayed with Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan in Al Ain and joined him on a number of hunting excursions.
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.