Seated portrait of a tribesman ... Size:medium

Seated portrait of a tribesman ... Size:mediumSeated portrait of a tribesman of the Manasir Bedouin at a Manasir encampment in the Al Khatam sands near Al Ain. An older man with a bushy grey beard kneels in soft sand facing forward. He wears a patterned ghutra (headscarf) draped around his head and neck, held with an 'agal (head rope), and a thobe (long shirt). Behind him on the left a worn canvas sack is tied to a bush growing in the sand. In the far distance bushes grow across a vast area of

In the far distance a large building sits on the rise

In the foreground people stand at an open air market

holding a shield

Muhammad bin Fadil stands with a peregrine falcon perched on a mangalah (cuff) over his arm

and a khanjar (dagger) in a cartridge belt around his waist

with a large number of hunting trophies (from the Western Nuer District) laid out and arranged for the camera

They are starting to skin the camel from the neck down

Behind them a tent made of woven palm mats has been erected in the sand

a small type of dhow (sailboat) in the Persian Gulf between Dubai Emirate and Bahrain Island

In the central foreground four of Wilfred Thesiger's Rashid Bedouin companions ride their camels across a patch of bare sand sand dotted with a few small sprigs of vegetation

On the far left one man unloads a couched camel

is sitting in the sand next to a pile of fibres and a camel saddle