View of a date palm ... Images of Wilfred Thesiger

View of a date palm ... Images of Wilfred ThesigerView of a date palm grove in Liwa oasis. In the central foreground a tall date palm grows in the sand amongst scattered salt bushes and clumps of qassis (sedge) on a salt flat. In the left background many date palms grow in a depression, likely a grove cultivated by local Bani Yas villagers. Further beyond salt bushes and cultivated palms grow across the flat, which is bordered on the left side by a long high wall of sand. This image was taken during

Three-quarter length standing portrait of an Arab boy in Dubai

filling calabashes (gourds) with water

dancing the hausa (tribal war dance)

View of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party trekking through the Bani Hilal tribal area near Jabal Sharif

Half length portrait of Musallim bin Al Kamam

He wears a Western suit jacket under his bisht

View of the fort at Abha

sits on the far right

In the far background the square Shindagha watchtower is visible standing high over the district

the 'Sky Dancing Rope Game' or Chakhen Tagshur

The ground below the camel is covered in fine sand dotted with small vegetation

In the far background houses line the far side of the creek