Profile portrait of an Arab ... Type:stretched canvas

Profile portrait of an Arab ... Type:stretched canvasProfile 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 [the camel's lower legs are cut off by the frame]. He wears a thobe (long shirt) topped with a cartridge belt and has a rifle slung under his left arm. His ghutra (headscarf) is wrapped closely around his head and face.

The man wears a khanjar (dagger) on a cartridge belt over his thobe (shirt) and a tied ghutra (headscarf)

This is the first picture of Hamad bin Saadna taken by Wilfred Thesiger

Two men walk across an open area of grass in the right foreground

A middle-aged tribesman of the Duru Bedouin with a long thick beard kneels in the sand on the left

front aprons (olemo)

Standing full length portrait of a tribesman of the Al Kathir Bedouin in the Jabal Qara mountains near Kismim Pass

taken during Wilfred Thesiger's journey from Abu Dhabi to Al Ain

standing on rocks on Mount Hendren

that on the left was being used by James Stevenson

He wears a light thobe (shirt) topped with a cartridge belt and dagger

In the far background Jabal Hafit (Jebel Hafeet) mountain rises high above the plain

In the distance beyond the sand is bare and high above the ridge the sky is empty of clouds