Portrait of two Duru Bedouin ... Frame:black

Portrait of two Duru Bedouin ... Frame:blackPortrait of two Duru Bedouin in the Wadi al 'Ayn. A tribesman of the Duru Bedouin stands facing towards the left, his face squinting towards the foreground. He wears a plaid cloth hanging across his shoulders over his thobe (shirt) and a headscarf topped with an 'agal (head rope). A small boy stands at his waist on the left. The boy wears an embroidered headscarf tied around his head. Behind them trees and bushes grow in the sand. Due to the nature of

possibly the Ru'us Al Jibal mountains

He wears a silver khanjar (dagger) on a cartridge belt over his thobe (long shirt)

View of two of Wilfred Thesiger's Bedouin companions in sand dunes in Al Khatam sands

employed as an interpreter of Dutch

The men at the centre and the man on the right both have khanjar (daggers) tucked into their cartridge belts

when all the Mission staff were in full dress in readiness for the second official visit they were to make to the Potala

View of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party trekking through the Al Dhafra sands during the party's journey to Baynunah

heading towards the far distance

the other three storeys

woollen hat

Portrait of a youth (named Lawi Leboyare)

Behind the trees Sheikh Saqr bin Mohammed Al Qasimi's fort is visible in the far distance