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View of a tree and ... Size:mediumView of a tree and a well outside a fort in the Al Ain Buraimi oasis. In the foreground a large tree grows beside a well in the midst of a large flat field. The well is topped with a wooden frame built from date palm logs. A leather water bag hangs on a rope looped over the well frame. In the background a number of 'arish (palm frond) and adobe houses, some with attached palm fenced enclosures, are built on the flat, and beyond a fort with a square

standing outside the new British Legation building

View of a crowd of shoppers and traders from the 'Amara tribe at the Suq ath Thulutha market

In the foreground four men and a young boy (centre) unload couched camels in the midst of a vast flat plain dotted with scattered clumps of vegetation

that has been propped up on wooden piles which sticking out of the water and sand

Al Muwaiji fort was the home base for Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan

Full length standing portrait of an Arab man wearing a daggers in a straight sheath over his thobe (shirt) in the city of Abha

dressed as if for raiding and holding a rifle

on the right

The texts are bound with a leather strap

View of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party in the Batin sands south of Liwa oasis

In the distance a tall circular stone watchtower sits in the middle of the ford

View of a large open area in the city of Abha