Portrait of two members of ... Size:small

Portrait of two members of ... Size:smallPortrait of two members of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party at a well south west of the Al Ain, during the party's journey from Al Ain to Liwa oasis. On the left a man wearing his thobe (long shirt) folded up into his belt stands on the left holding a rope. At the centre Salim bin Ghabaisha, a tribesman of the Bayt Imani lineage of Rashid Bedouin, holds a leather bag of water for one of the few camels standing on the right. Behind them a high steep

Portrait of three members of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party men butchering a camel in the Shi'b al Raqq near the Haij well

In the foreground a bare sand dune slopes steeply down to into a depression

In the background camels cluster around a ghaf [Prosopis cineraria] tree

A third man sits to the left of the standing boys

The crest of the dune stretches from the foreground into the far distance

Full length portrait of two young boys of the Nahad tribe standing against a wall in a village in the Al Qatan region

in Al Ain oasis

and his long hair hangs down around his shoulders beneath his headscarf

Behind them a crowd of camels waits by the well

View of loaded camels being led over a rocky plain

View of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party riding through the Ramlat al Ghirbaniyat (Ghirbaniyat Sands)

likely a suq (market)