Zuni eagle cage Size:small

Zuni eagle cage Size:smallView of a Zuni man standing beside an eagle cage, a structure made of earth and branches, on top of which sits an eagle. According to James Stevenson's original note for this photograph (prepared circa 1885), the 'people of Zuni possess about seventy five of these birds which are kept only for their feathers, the bird itself never being elevated to the dignity of an object of worship by the Zunis. These eagles are kept in stockade cages, and fed on

Behind the grove high sand dunes fill the landscape in all directions

View of members of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party resting with their camels

A thoroughbred Omani camel belonging to Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan stands facing forward

Further behind a man stands next to a similar boat

It was one of a number of stelae and zoomorphs erected at Quirigua as part of a complex building programme which took place at the height of the city-state's power during the Late Classic period

There are fields in the foreground

Portrait of a boy at in the town of Dhahran in Qahtan tribal territory

A fisherman and a boy stand together beside a large water barrel sitting on the sand

a sheikh of the Musaifar lineage of Rashid Bedouin and one of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling companions

View of Wilfred Thesiger's sailing companions sitting on the deck of a sailboat (dhow) in the Abu Dhabi islands

View of locals walking in a narrow street lined with canopied shops in Kuwait City

which is saddled with a dark sheepskin and a burlap sack (most of the camel is outside the frame)