Profile portrait of Salim bin ... Type:stretched canvas

Profile portrait of Salim bin ... Type:stretched canvasProfile portrait of Salim bin Ghabaisha, one of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling companions, riding a camel during the party's journey from Jabal Sumeini to the port city of Sharjah. Salim bin Ghabaisha, a tribesman of the Bayt Imani lineage of Rashid Bedouin, kneels in the saddle of his camel [the camel's legs are outside the frame]. Salim bin Ghabaisha wears a cartridge belt and leather suspenders over his thobe (long shirt) and has a ghutra

which consists of a chain halter

Seated portrait of two young boys of the Al Nahyan family sitting in the sand in Al Ain

Further behind them a small boy stands in the grass

a type of dhow) in the harbour at Dubai

Exterior view of the mudhif (guest house) belonging to Abdullah of the Al Essa tribe

In the far background high dunes are visible in the distance

In the foreground a large compound of 'arish huts

On the left a cloth and wood fence surrounds the house in the left background

near Bir al Tawil in the Ramlat ar Rabbad

while at the far right one camel walks towards a low flat plain dotted with vegetation

riding a camel in the Al Khatam sands near Jebel Hafeet (Jabal Hafit)

wearing a garland of sweet-scented herbs in his hair