Seated portrait of a tribesman ... Images of Wilfred Thesiger

Seated portrait of a tribesman ... Images of Wilfred ThesigerSeated portrait of a tribesman of the Junuba Bedouin, one of the retainers of Sulaiman bin Hamyiar, in the region west of the Hamrat ad Duru. The man kneels in the sand facing forward with his hands resting on his thighs. He wears a khanjar (dagger) on a cartridge belt over his thobe (shirt) and an embroidered headscarf. This man was sent by Sulaiman bin Hamyiar to accompany Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party from Al Hubi village to Al Ain. Sulaiman

joined together at the top

watching the man gather water from the well

Nearby a group of camels wait next to a hawd

resting with their loads

The man has a grey beard

Behind him there is a deep depression in the sand

Behind him small tufts of vegetation jut out across a vast sand flat from the near foreground into the far distance

View of round huts at a village in the lower Wadi Damad

retainers of Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan

The sand dune on which the camel stands is ridged with small

View of a man standing in a dry farmer's field in the Al Ghamid tribal region between the villages of Al Makhwah and Thurayban

On the right a breakwater made of stones shelters the shipyard from the tide