Portrait of a peregrine falcon ... Africa 2

Portrait of a peregrine falcon ... Africa 2Portrait of a peregrine falcon belonging to Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan's hunting party resting in the Al Khatam sands near Al Ain. A puffed up peregrine falcon perches on a carved wooden wakir (block) staked in the sand with its chest facing forward and its head turned to the right. In the background a vast expanse of soft sand slopes into the distance. This image was taken between December 20, 1948, and January 27, 1949, during which time

View of some children and buildings next to a river with mountains in the background

On the right two 'arish huts

which is made up of small huts covered in grass and mud

another dressed in leopard skin (pien kwach) and they are all holding either a spear or a club (rungu

A shrine with a cloth canopy sits in the middle of a street

View of one of the dhows (sailboats) on which Wilfred Thesiger sailed through the Abu Dhabi islands with Sheikh Hazaa bin Sultan Al Nahyan and his retainers

a bare dune slope rises in ridges to the right

12 Ahau 8 Pax (Maya calendar)

Further beyond dhows are moored in shallow water close to shore

A group of men stand in an abra in the foreground

a tribesman of the Bayt Gidad lineage of Bayt Kathir Bedouin

a young Samburu man