Half length seated portrait of ... India

Half length seated portrait of ... IndiaHalf length seated portrait of a tribesman of the Manasir Bedouin at Al Ain. A bearded man kneels in the sand facing forward, his hands crossed in front of his chest. In one hand he holds a camel stick. The man wears a light coloured thobe (long shirt) and a patterned ghutra (headscarf) draped around his head and neck, held in place with an 'agal (head rope). In the distance behind him tufts of vegetation grow across a vast flat expanse of sand. This

while behind them two members of the party and a camel wait

A bare flat runs from the foreground into the near distance

On the right Sahail bin Tahi

in front of a fence made of palm fronds

sheep and donkeys at a well in the region between Suq ath Thulutha and Wadi Hali

View of a camel caravan passing in front of the gates to the city of Al Mukalla

they contain Faleh bin Majid's men

Piles of firewood and camp supplies lie in the sand around them

Back view of a nomad woman showing long strip of cloth attached to several thin plaits of hair

a tribesman of the Bayt Gidad lineage of Bayt Kathir Bedouin and one of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling companions

In the foreground bushes grow on a flat plain

Three Bedouin boys in the Wadi al Jiz' near its junction with Wadi Mahrat