Standing three-quarter length portrait of ... Frame:black

Standing three-quarter length portrait of ... Frame:blackStanding three quarter length portrait of Mahalhal bin 'Ati, one of Wilfred Thesiger's Bedouin guides, taken during the party's journey from Ramlat al Ghirbaniyat to Furai well. Mahalhal bin 'Ati, a tribesman of the Al Khamis lineage of Awamir Bedouin, stands in the foreground facing towards the left. He wears a cartridge belt over a light coloured thobe (shirt) and a thick ghutra (headscarf). In the distance behind him lies an empty flat plain. Due

In the background the limestone cliffs of Jabal Hafit (Jebel Hafeet) rise in the distance

A large pale thoroughbred camel stands in profile facing towards the left

He holds a peregrine falcon on a mangalah (cuff) on his left arm

as seen from the dzong or fort

View of Musallim bin Al Kamam standing beside a long wall in Al Muwaiji near Al Muwaiji Fort in Al Ain

an armed party of soldiers

The attendant is wearing a winter hat and the group are standing in a courtyard outside a house

and several large flags being waved overhead

likely qassis (sedge)

dancing the hausa (tribal war dance) to celebrate a wedding

Further along

some of them are missing masts