Full length portrait of an ... Miscellaneous

Full length portrait of an ... MiscellaneousFull length portrait of an Arab man, one of Wilfred Thesiger's guides, carrying firewood during the party's journey from Jabal Sumeini to the port city of Sharjah. The man, a retainer of Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan, walks across a bare sandy area with a large load of firewood over his shoulder. He is wearing a thobe (long shirt) topped with a cartridge belt and has his ghutra (headscarf) wrapped closely around his head and face. In the

Group portrait of four boys

typically women's dress but here worn shortly before circumcision

The silt deposit is the result of a flood in the Wadi Umm al Hayt thirty to sixty years ago

It has high arches and a number of wind towers (barjeel) atop its roof

In the distance a few dhows are moored in the water

cattle and donkeys

attended by a Bedouin family

womens' earrings and ostrich feathers in his headband after his circumcision

and holds its wings out from its body in order to maintain its balance on the bustard and shield its prey from other predators

named Munzuk [Murzuk]

On the right two porters carry cargo on their shoulders

In the foreground the bow of a beached dhow sits on the shore