View of Salim bin Kabina ... Frame:none

View of Salim bin Kabina ... Frame:noneView of Salim bin Kabina, a member of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party, on a dune in Al Humrah sands during the party's journey to Umm az Zumul. In the left foreground Salim bin Kabina, a tribesman of the Bayt Imani lineage of Rashid Bedouin, stands on the crest of a dune. He balances a rifle in a tasselled case on one shoulder, and holds a camel stick. Behind him another dune ridge rises, and in the far distance beyond a sabkha (salt flat) lies at

a cluster of 'arish huts

The men are tying sails

a culitvator

Three-quarter length standing group portrait of four men

He has a headscarf (ghutra) draped over his head and wears a khanjar (dagger) tucked into a leather belt over his thobe (long shirt)

his servant in the Sudan

in the desert of the Empty Quarter (Rub' al Khali)

In the foreground a few boys and men

View of Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan's hunting party in Al Khatam sands near Jebel Hafeet (Jabal Hafit)

wearing a turban and shorts)

One man stands bent over inside the tent

and closer still to the camera the collector James Stevenson can be seen talking with a local inhabitant