Half length portrait of tribesman ... Frame:black

Half length portrait of tribesman ... Frame:blackHalf length portrait of tribesman of the Manasir Bedouin in Al Khatam sands near Al Ain. A young man with chin length curly hair and a thick beard stands looking into the far right foreground. He wears a patterned ghutra (headscarf) tied around his head and draped down over the back of his neck and a plain light thobe (long shirt). In the distance behind him clumps of vegetation grow scattered across the sand. This image was taken between December 20,

Salim bin Ghabaisha crouches on a rocky outcrop looking into the far left distance

cruciform in shape

Salih and Raikan accompanied Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party from Al Ain to Al Dhafra sands

she is wearing beaded necklaces and metal jewellery

and kitchen goods

Wilfred Patrick Thesiger kneels in soft sand in front of a dry bush

In the near distance a man adjusts the saddlery on his camel

In the foreground a middle-aged man and two boys walk along a covered thoroughfare in a market

on a MacQueen's Bustard that it has killed

decorated with red ochre paint on his face and around his shoulders

and further right beached dhows line the shore in front of buildings in the Shindagha district

holding a stick in his right hand