Upper body portrait of one ... Frame:gold

Upper body portrait of one ... Frame:goldUpper body portrait of one of Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan's Bedouin retainers outside Al Muwaiji Fort in Al Ain. A smiling man wears a thobe (long shirt) and a headscarf (ghutra) topped with thin black aghal (head ropes) stands in front of the walls of Al Muwaiji fort. He holds a rifle against his left shoulder. This image was taken during April 6 30, 1948, when Wilfred Thesiger stayed at Al Muwaiji fort in Al Ain as a guest of Sheikh Zayed bin

stands in the foreground holding a length of rope

and in the far right distance the ocean rises along the shore

Interior view of the mudhif (guest house) belonging to Yahyah bin Haji Yasin of the Bani Hatcham tribe

In the far distance low rock escarpments rise along the horizon

View of buildings in a village near the city of Abha

In the foreground a Bedouin man stands next to two camels grazing on a clump of vegetation in an expanse of sand

Close up portrait of a young Arab man in Dubai

He holds a rifle and a camel stick in his hands

His camel grazes on a bush in front of him

Portrait of two Bedouin men in Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party cutting up meat from a slaughtered camel in the Wadi Hawshi

View of a date palm grove in Liwa oasis

On the right a crowd waits beside the well while a few men are using ropes and pulleys to get water from the well