Group portrait of five members ... Iraq

Group portrait of five members ... IraqGroup portrait of five members of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party eating food in the Ramlat ar Rabbad sands. Five members of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party sit in a semicircle around a metal pot from which they are eating. Two men sit at the left. Beside them, a camel is couched in the sand. Salim bin Kabina, a tribesman of the Bayt Imani lineage of Rashid Bedouin, sits at the centre of the group. He is looking at his hands. Next to Salim bin

in the Persian Gulf between Dubai Emirate and Bahrain Island

Portrait of Bin Kabina holding a rifle

kneels atop the camel

Grass grows at along the top of the wall

View of buildings at a settlement near Telouet in the High Atlas range of mountains

stands at the far left

In the far background a few bushes grow scattered across the sand

In the foreground a moored boom sits in calm water rippled by gentle waves below a cloudless sky

Interior view of a large tent

In the background lies a creek and in the far distance the Ru'us Al Jibal mountains rise high above the horizon

Three of Wilfred Thesiger's Bedouin companions lead a caravan of six camels across a flat plain dotted with large salt-bushes

sparsely dotted with small shrubs and grasses