Close up portrait of Alaiwa ... Frame:natural

Close up portrait of Alaiwa ... Frame:naturalClose up portrait of Alaiwa bin Lutaiya, a member of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party, sitting in camp near the Wadi Samhan. Alaiwa bin Lutaiya, a tribesman of the Marakhin lineage of Duru Bedouin, sits with his body half facing to the right, his face turned directly forward. His eyes are closed, and he wears a plain ghutra (headscarf) and a dark thobe (shirt). In the background vegetation grows on a sand dune. Due to the nature of these images,

View of a large group of men and boys

Behind him three more men pause on their camels

On the left one man is piling pieces of meat on a piece of cloth

Behind him on the left a tree casts shade over a palm fence

View of the Chamar Pass

sit in the sand facing forwards

Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan sitting in front of a tent with Tahnun bin Muhammad and two boys

The kotia has a transom stern that is steeply inclined

facing towards the right

the son of Saida Khan

Portrait of a member of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party resting in the Ramlat al Ghirbaniyat (Ghirbaniyat Sands)

Behind him a vast flat plain dotted with scattered clumps of vegetation runs into the far distance