Standing full length portrait of ... Frame:goldStanding full length portrait of Sahail bin Tahi, a member of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party, on a sand dune during the party's journey from Al Ain to Liwa oasis, likely in the region of Al Humrah sands. Sahail bin Tahi, a tribesman of the Mudairiba lineage of Rashid Bedouin, stands on a sand dune in the left foreground, holding a rifle in a tasselled leather sheath over his shoulder and leaning on a camel stick. He wears a ghutra (headscarf) on
A young boy stands in the midst of a large field on the slope of a mountain
while on the other the peregrine falcon perches on a mangalah (cuff) over his arm
with large trees in the foreground and mountains in the distance
leaving the port at Barcelona (1837)
working on the prow of Wilfred Thesiger's tarada (sheikh's canoe)
In the background a saluki hunting dog walks across a vast flat dotted with low bushes
Portrait of Wilfred Thesiger's Rashid Bedouin companions at a well in a date palm grove at Liwa oasis
which was the first well Wilfred Thesiger and his party encountered after crossing the 'Uruq ash Shaybah dunes
Behind him another sailor
Behind them Sheikh Saqr bin Mohammed Al Qasimi's fort sits in the central distance
View of houses at Bait Hadad
and wears an 'agal (head rope) over a patterned ghutra (headscarf) and a light coloured thobe (shirt)
