Portrait of Hamad bin Saadna ... Type:stretched canvasPortrait of Hamad bin Saadna and two Rashid tribesmen sitting beside a cooking fire at the encampment of Muhammad, a sheikh of the Rashid Bedouin, near Bir al Tawil in the Ramlat ar Rabbad. Hamad bin Saadna (known by Wilfred Thesiger as Hamad bin Hanna) crouches at the left, holding his hands above the cooking pots on the fire. Hamad bin Saadna is a tribesman of the Bayt Hanna lineage of Rashid Bedouin. The man at the centre, holding a coffee cup, is
with Manwakh well and mountains in the distance
In the foreground two men stand beside a man standing on a oil drum in front of the sambuk
looking northwards from Tanta (near Magdala)
View of a camel and a member of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party walking along a dune in the Ramlat as Sahmah
In the background other members of the party rest in the sand
Another three men and a boy sit in front of the tent
A dirt pathway cuts through an area of rubble in a neighbourhood of tall buildings
View of cultivated fields
View of boats filled with many people
View of a member of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party trekking through Al Dhafra sands during their journey across the Empty Quarter (Rub' al Khali) from Dhibi well to Al Batin sands
In the centre Mahalhal bin 'Ati
View of a Bin Maaruf nomad (of the Saar tribe) with a camel which carries a litter made of wood and cloth on its back
