Seated portrait of a young ... Type:stretched canvas

Seated portrait of a young ... Type:stretched canvasSeated portrait of a young man, one of Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan's Bedouin retainers in Al Ain. The man sits in the sand with a rifle tucked into his right shoulder. He wears a thobe (long shirt) and a headscarf (ghutra) topped with thin black aghal (head ropes). 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 stayed at Al Muwaiji fort in Al Ain as a

In the distance scattered dots of vegetation grow on the sand dunes

Group portrait of a man (named Mangasha)

rolling dunes

The man is plaiting palm frond fibres

View of high rolling dunes in Al Batin sands in the Empty Quarter (Rub' al Khali)

The young boy kneeling in front of Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan may be Sheikh Tahnoun bin Mohammed Al Nahyan

'arish huts and enclosures made from palm fronds sit in the sand along the shore in the town of Ras Al Khaimah

In the background camels and a man stand on the flat plain

the Lord Chamberlain

View of three members of Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan's hunting party riding in Al Khatam sands near Al Ain

Four rifles rest against the lip of the water trough

In the background the flat plain