Standing full length portrait of ... Thesiger Collection

Standing full length portrait of ... Thesiger CollectionStanding full length portrait of a man and a thoroughbred camel on an Abu Dhabi island. A man wearing a headscarf, thobe (ankle length shirt) and a suit jacket stands to the left of a large, light coloured camel. The man holds the rough twine head rope of the camel in one hand, and covers his face with a portion of his headscarf using his hand. The camel, which belongs to an Abu Dhabi sheikh and has been left to pasture on this island, stands in

A group of men stand around a pile of hay or grass on the shore in front of a moored dhow (sailboat) covered by a large cloth canopy

surrounded by high stone walls

View of a camel belonging to Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party walking along a road in the Wadi Qa'ah

Mabkhaut bin Arbain

Each of the men wears a thobe (shirt) topped with a cartridge belt and a headscarf

Three tied camels follow along behind the men

In the left foreground a man and a boy stand beside coils of rope stacked in bundles on the ground

with a donkey at the left of the image and a herd of goats in the distance

View of houses at a settlement in the Tochi valley

wearing a band round his forehead to which he has fastened the stuffed skins of small birds he has shot with his bow and arrows

hanging behind an altar/table with brass pots

View of rooftops and a rooftop shelter in the city of Abha