Seated portrait of one of ... Type:stretched canvas

Seated portrait of one of ... Type:stretched canvasSeated portrait of one of Wilfred Thesiger's Arab guides on a stoney plain below Jebel Hafeet [Jabal Hafit] mountain. The man sits on stoney ground. He wears a light coloured thobe (long shirt) and a patterned headscarf (ghutra). Around his waist he wears a cartridge belt attached to leather bandoliers, and in his right hand he holds a khanjar (dagger). In the background the stoney ground is bare of vegetation. In the far distance a line of trees

The stonework flood defences that line the banks of the river are visible on the left

He has a long thick beard and wears a light thobe (long shirt) with a plain ghutra (headscarf) tied around his head

View of locals and Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party at a well during their journey from Jabal Sumeini to Sharjah

At the centre a boy yawns as he holds the head rope of his camel

Wilfred Thesiger's party in the Wadi Ma'adi on the journey to Al Mukalla

Boats moored on the Kiso River at Gifu

Seated profile portrait of Musallim bin Al Kamam

Wooden boxes and large baskets sit along the right side of the aisle

probably in Ha Long Bay

A group of men and boys stand at the edge of a grassy clearing

In the centre of the group a man and a boy are gutting fish

a Maasai elder