View of the Shindagha district ... Thesiger Collection

View of the Shindagha district ... Thesiger CollectionView of the Shindagha district from the Bur Dubai side of Dubai Creek. In the foreground 'arish huts and enclosures made from palm fronds line Dubai Creek. In the far left background a square stone watchtower, the Shindagha, rises high above nearby houses in the Shindagha district. Further along, on the far side of the creek, one and two storey houses made of coral are built close together in the Shindagha district. Two large dhows (sailboats) sit in

Photographic reproduction by Malcolm Osman of an original work in gouache

He wears a floral ghutra (headscarf) with a very thick agal (head rope) and holds a rifle in a protective leather sleeve

On the far right three people rest by the water next to a beached boat

In the foreground man wades through shallow water

then housed in Al Fahidi Fort

Portrait of a crowd of men at Suq al Sabt market below Jabal Mana'

with a mosque in the foreground and houses in the distance

a village and a hill near Jabal Harfa

A house stands on the left

In the distance a number of booms

with two members of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party standing on a ledge in the foreground

surrounding a round watchtower on all sides