Full length portrait of Salim ... Type:unstretched canvasFull length portrait of Salim bin Kabina, one of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling companions, with Ghazala ('the gazelle'), a famous thoroughbred Batina camel owned by Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan and renowned for its beauty and speed. Salim bin Kabina (left), a tribesman of the Bayt Imani lineage of the Rashid Bedouin, stands holding Ghazala's head rope in the midst of rocky sand littered with camel droppings. He is wearing leather bandoliers and a
At the well in Umm al Khashab
In the left foreground a man walks though a small patch of light cast by the overhead canopy which covers the market aisle
View of reeds growing in a pool in the Wadi Darbat
Salim bin Ghabaisha standing beside a group of boys sitting on the ground in the Jabal Qara mountains
Their personal adornments are simple glass bead necklaces (tik ng’ut)
He wears a khanjar (dagger) on a cartridge belt over his thobe (long shirt)
with a man and several donkeys in the background
View of a lone bare tree at the bottom of a high dune in the 'Uruq ash Shaybah sands in the Empty Quarter (Rub' al Khali)
Part of the Potala showing the lower part of the 13th Dalai Lama's tomb known as Serdhung Gelek Dhojo
View of Wilfred Thesiger's party stopping to allow the camels to graze in the Sharqiyah Sands
In the background a herd of camels water at the well
On the left a group of men stand together on the beach