The market at Abha in ... Images of Sheikh Zayed

The market at Abha in ... Images of Sheikh ZayedThe market at Abha in front of Al Shada Palace, the palace of the Emir. Traders stand with their pack donkeys at an open air market in front of the palace. 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.

one of Wilfred Thesiger's Bedouin companions stands next to his camel

Camel blankets lie in the sand behind the wakir

Behind them beached dhows (sailboats) and other craft lie on the shore

Carvings of deities can be seen in the lowest band of carvings and one of Atisha or Tsongkhapa in the bottom left of the image has been carved into the rock face in the round

and behind him three men and two boys rest on the foredeck

The boy and the man in the centre both have camel sticks

Sahail bin Tahi

In the left foreground ferries are docked at a ferry boat launch on Dubai creek

Side view of the bow of a j

with four people standing beside it

On the left a man wearing his thobe (long shirt) folded up into his belt stands on the left holding a rope

sitting on rocks at Yisub well