View of limestone cliffs atop ... Size:small

View of limestone cliffs atop ... Size:smallView of limestone cliffs atop Jebel Hafeet [Jabal Hafit] mountain. In the foreground a steep wall of limestone slopes from a low area at the bottom left to a high ridge at the top right. In the distance beyond sparse vegetation grows on a vast flat plain. Wilfred Thesiger spent a week on Jebel Hafeet [Jabal Hafit] hunting Arabian Tahr [Hemitragus jayakari] with Arab and Bedouin guides in April 1948. Due to the nature of these images, prints will

Seated portrait of two members of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party at a Manasir encampment in the Baynunah sands

Behind him three camels stand around the trough

wrapped in the goatskin cloaks traditionally worn at the time of circumcision

with two boys by its entrance

Behind him a camel wearing a hood is pulling on the arm of the sesame press

leaning on a spear

A man holding a rifle and a peregrine falcon on a mangalah (cuff) kneels in soft sand dotted with small shoots of vegetation

In the foreground small boulders lie on a slope

with sand dunes in the distance

At the centre

Huge embroidered banners hanging from the walls of the Potala during Sertreng Ceremony

Musallim bin al Kamam