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Standing full length profile portrait ... Frame:noneStanding full length profile portrait of Sahail bin Tahi, a member of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party, on a sand dune during the party's journey from Al Ain to Liwa oasis, likely in the region of Al Humrah sands. Sahail bin Tahi, a tribesman of the Mudairiba lineage of Rashid Bedouin, stands in the central foreground looking into the far left distance. He wears a ghutra (headscarf) on his head and has a khanjar (dagger) on a belt over his thobe

one facing forward and one facing backward

Portrait of a man and a boy

heading into the near foreground

while the spinner by means of a corn-cob reduces the yarn to a more uniform size

stretching below a vast cloudless sky

) in both hands

Several bundles of cloth lie in front of him

On the far right a palm frond fence has been erected in the fort's courtyard below

Monks in bottom right corner

Below him on the right two large bushes grow in the the depression amongst scattered tufts of vegetation

In the background many houses sit along the edge of the market

The beaded plait tied around the hair and the buttons and beads sewn on the textile are clearly visible in this image