Seated portrait of Salim bin ... Tibet

Seated portrait of Salim bin ... TibetSeated portrait of Salim bin Kabina, one of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling companions, in the region surrounding Al Ain Buraimi Oasis. Salim bin Kabina, a tribesman of the Bayt Imani lineage of Rashid Bedouin, sits facing towards the right, his head turned forward. He is holding a rifle across his lap. He wears a cartridge belt with a khanjar (dagger) over his thobe (shirt) and a headscarf topped with an 'agal (head rope). Beneath his headscarf, his

in which a group of people sits

where a grove of date palms grows

On the left a tall man sits beside three young tribesmen

View of fields and tower houses in the town of Dhahran

Young tamarisk trees grow in the salt pan

View of moran (warriors) repairing the mud (clay) cattle ramp leading down to Ngasumet well

in Liwa oasis

with tall houses either side

In the distance beyond a few stone buildings sit on the right

bare of living vegetation

On the left a member of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party loads one of two camels couched in the shade of a tall tree

Horpa man and woman