Seated portrait of Salim bin ... John K. Hillers

Seated portrait of Salim bin ... John K. HillersSeated portrait of Salim bin Ghabaisha, a tribesman of the Bayt Imani lineage of Rashid Bedouin and one of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling companions, on one of the Abu Dhabi islands. Salim bin Ghabaisha crouches on a rocky outcrop looking at a piece of plant that he is holding in his hand. He is wearing a patterned izaar (skirt) and his hair is blown by the wind. Behind him small bushes grow scattered across a low sandy area below a flat plain. This

Scattered patches of dry grass grow on the rocky plain

while above the sky is empty of clouds

In the foreground a vast expanse of bare sand leads to a cluster of stone and adobe buildings

This photograph was taken by Omar Ibrahim

possibly a water skin

with small wooden balconies

Profile portrait of Warad

View of Wilfred Thesiger's party trekking across dunes in Al Humrah sands during their journey to Umm az Zumul

with a boy standing on the ground beside him

View of Wilfred Thesiger's party resting in shade cast by a cluster of trees in the Sharqiyah Sands

with (the mountain) Jabal al Akhdar at the right of the image

the ends of which are supported on ornate gilt trumpet stands decorated with eight auspicious Buddhist emblems and floral motifs