View of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling ... Type:unstretched canvas

View of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling ... Type:unstretched canvasView of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party trekking in the Ramlat ar Rabbad sands. In the foreground two Bedouin men walk with their camels along the top of a sloping sand dune, heading towards the foreground. Behind them a third member of the party follows. The sand dune is dotted with vegetation. In the far background a stretch of flat sand lies on the right, possibly a sabkha (salt flat), lies in the distance. Due to the nature of these images,

stands on the left

with a shrine visible in the foreground

In the foreground Salim bin Kabina

Wilfred Thesiger's party near the Ad Dibin palm groves

Behind the compound a tall building

It has high arches and a number of wind towers (barjeel) atop its roof

On the left a metal bowl lies in the sand near a dry bush

Falconer with a falcon on his arm

Wilfred Thesiger's saluki hunting dog

a type of dhow) moored off the beach at Kuwait

Group portrait of a line of men waiting to dance in a circumcision ceremony in An Namas

It the far distance a high mountain rises above the plain