A tomb in the town ... Jacques-Philippe Potteau

A tomb in the town ... Jacques-Philippe PotteauA tomb in the town of Al Qatan, west of Shibam, in the Wadi Hadramawt. This is a white, domed building with extensions and columns in front. 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.

in the region between Khasfah well in the Ramlat Khasfah and Matki well near Mughshin Oasis

The doorway is framed with columns

View of a vast sandy wadi in the Bani Hilal tribal area near Jabal Sharif

and in the far distance deciduous trees grow on the mountain slopes

Behind them gear lies in the sand around the camp

Close-up view of the stern of a balam (flat-bottomed boat)

Nearby a few people walk along the aisles

on which a coffee urn sits

In the background a vast expanse of pebbly and sandy ground stretches out to the far horizon

which hangs down over his thobe (shirt) on one side

In the foreground an Arab man wearing a thobe (long shirt) and ghutra (headscarf) stands on the far left of a rocky slope

Portrait of sheikhs at Abu Dhabi