Seated portrait of an elderly ... TibetSeated portrait of an elderly tribesman of the Rashid, one of Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan's Bedouin retainers, in Al Ain. The man kneels in rocky sand, grasping a camel stick in his left hand. His right hand is in his lap. He has a headscarf (ghutra) draped over his head and wears a khanjar (dagger) tucked into a leather belt over his thobe (long shirt). Behind the man is a flat plain of rocky sand, almost bare of vegetation. This image was
He wears a patterned ghutra (headscarf) with frayed edges tied tightly around his head and a thobe (long shirt) cinched with a cartridge belt
A pool of water in the mountains at Ayun spring
A small dhow is moored alongside a boom
View of members of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party resting at the southern end of Jabal Hafit (Jebel Hafeet)
wearing a bandolier and a dagger in a scabbard across his waist
steep ramp
The sand surrounding the oryx is littered with animal droppings
Further beyond domed circular huts with straw roofs fill the distance
Portrait of an elderly man of the Bayt Kathir Bedouin at Qafa well in Wadi 'Aydim
In the foreground a desiccated plant sits in a small mound of sand on a sand dune
In the near distance one of Wilfred Thesiger's Bedouin companions walks past a grazing camel
a tribesman of the Bayt Gidad lineage of Bayt Kathir Bedouin
