Upper body portrait of two ... Size:largeUpper body portrait of two men in Al Ain Buraimi oasis. Two Arab men wearing thobe (long shirts) and ghutra (headscarves) stand side by side in an open grassy area. Behind the men a few shrubs can be seen in the far distance. This image was taken during April 6 30, 1948, when Wilfred Thesiger stayed at Al Muwaiji fort in Al Ain as a guest of Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan. Due to the nature of these images, prints will reproduce any signs of age,
The ground around them is dry and strewn with rocks and small pebbles
In the background scattered patches of grass grow on the dry plain
On the left wood is piled up on the shore beside a donkey and some beached rowboats
A small white domed building with a palm tree next to it
In the central foreground a small boat
and wearing black ostrich feather headdresses and holding bows and blunted arrows for use during the final part of the lengthy circumcision ritual
Four of Sheikh Zayed's falconers
Standing portrait of two falconers in Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan's hunting party
and several large flags being waved overhead
View of a dhow in Dubai Creek at sunset
squats on a rock holding a rifle in his hands
Beside him the camels are grazing on a clump of vegetation
