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Seated profile portrait of an ... Frame:blackSeated profile portrait of an elder Bedouin man at a fort (likely Al Muwaiji Fort) in Al Ain. An elder Bedouin man with a long goatee and short hair sits in profile, facing towards the left. He wears a plain ghutra (headscarf) topped with a dark 'agal (head rope) and a thobe (long shirt). His ghutra is pulled back from his face and hangs loosely down over his chest and shoulders. Behind him a large bush grows along a fort wall. This image was taken

looking out over a vast white sabkha (salt flat) lying beyond

Portrait of a man and two boys

Tracks of a pelican in the Uruq al Awarik sands

Group portrait of Wilfred Thesiger (centre) and members of his travelling party: Mabkhaut bin Arbain

The man wears a patterned ghutra (headscarf) and a plain thobe (shirt)

Behind him low rolling dunes dotted with tufts of vegetation stretch out into the distance

Two more pots and a coffeepot stand on the ground

In the foreground one of Wilfred Thesiger's Bedouin travelling companions stands beside a tall tree growing on a rocky flat

and three children

Behind him thick vegetation grows in the sand

Some parts are made of wood

View of Arab men unloading their camels at the open air market in the town of Qalat Bishah