View of two members of ... Frame:natural

View of two members of ... Frame:naturalView of two members of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party in Al Dhafra sands during the party's journey to Baynunah. In the centre distance two of Wilfred Thesiger's Rashid Bedouin companions sit on their camels in stretch of flat sand in front of a dune. One of the camels is grazing on a large bush. In the distance beyond the men, rolling dunes dotted with clumps of vegetation continue into the far distance. This image was taken during Wilfred

View of several men standing and sitting in front of a tent

The man wears a khanjar (dagger) on a cartridge belt over his thobe (shirt) and a tied ghutra (headscarf)

beneath which many men rest

In the left distance an expanse of fields stretches out towards a cluster of houses in the left background

Wilfred Thesiger's Bedouin travelling party watering their camels at Makhari well

which are resting on a rifle in a leather sleeve balanced across his lap

Two huge tankas hanging from the Potala palace

Behind him is a ridge of small bushes

a Fitaurari (or commander of the spearhead)

soft volcanic tufa in which thousands of artificial caves have been dug by a preceding race

Behind it two sailors stand facing the ship's mast

sits on a rock face holding a rifle