Seated portrait of a young ... IraqSeated portrait of a young man, one of Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan's Bedouin retainers in Al Ain. The man sits on a geometrically patterned woven carpet in the sand. He wears a thobe (long shirt), a headscarf (ghutra) topped with thin black aghal (head ropes), and has a rifle tucked into his right shoulder. An adobe building sits in the far left distance behind the young man. This image was taken during April 6 30, 1948, when Wilfred Thesiger
the yarn is allowed to be taken up on the upper end of the shaft
The man is smoking a wooden pipe
In the near right distance Salim bin Kabina
Just behind them a sail is tied to a yard hanging above
Full-length portrait of a tribesman of the Rashid Bedouin at Muhammad's encampment in the Ramlat ar Rabbad sands near Bir al Tawil
View of a raba (house) being built
watching the man pouring water
In the foreground a thicket of trees and shrubs grows in the left foreground in an expanse of sand
The man is carrying a rifle on his shoulder
Beside him a man (Salim bin Kabina
In the far left background a square stone watchtower
On the right a crowd waits beside the well while a few men are using ropes and pulleys to get water from the well
