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Full length standing portrait of ... Frame:naturalFull length standing portrait of two Arab men in front of a rock wall in Dubai. On the left a young man wears a waistcoat and a khanjar (dagger) in a scabbard over his thobe (ankle length shirt). He also holds a cane in one hand. The older man on the right wears a bisht (robe) over his thobe and also has a khanjar in a scabbard on a belt around his waist. Each man also wears a ghutra (headscarf). This image was taken during Wilfred Thesiger's May 10

In the background two stone buildings border sit behind the square

wearing heavy metal jewellery on her arms

He wears a waistcoat over his thobe (shirt) and a thick black 'agal (head rope) over his ghutra (headscarf)

He wears a large ghutra (headscarf) and a thobe (shirt)

View of a city square in the city of Jeddah

In the distance the party's camels are grazing on one of the trees

Portrait of Thesiger in Oman

He kneels on the ground

In the distance beyond a salt flat (sabkha)

and further back the mountain Jebel Hafeet (Jabal Hafit) is visible

a type of dhow) sailing up the Persian Gulf

He has his eyes closed and is laughing