Profile portrait of an Arab ... AfghanistanProfile portrait of an Arab man, one of Wilfred Thesiger's guides, riding a camel during the party's journey from Jabal Sumeini to the port city of Sharjah. The man, a retainer of Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan, kneels in his saddle facing towards the left [the camel's lower legs are cut off by the bottom frame]. The man wears a thobe (long shirt) topped with a cartridge belt and wears his ghutra (headscarf) wrapped closely around his head and
Musallim bin Anauf is from the Bayt Gidad lineage of Bayt Kathir Bedouin
View of a group of farmers using teams of donkeys to thresh hay on a farm outside the city of Tarim
View of a few leafy trees growing in a field near the village of Al Makhwah
Portrait of a young man crouching on a boulder at the Suq ath Thulutha market
The man has a grey beard
There are a number of decorated boxes
and in the further distance more vegetation grows along the sides of the dunes
In the foreground falconer wearing a light coloured thobe (long shirt) topped with a cartridge belt and khanjar (dagger) stands in a patch of bare sand
the lead boat being paddled by one man and that following by two men
In the distance behind them a number of other caravans rest in the sand outside the city gates
perhaps more advanced in civilized arts than the people of Taos
Seated portrait of two Sahul Bedouin children resting in front of a tent at one of the Rumah wells
