View of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling ... Type:unstretched canvas

View of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling ... Type:unstretched canvasView of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party trekking through sand dunes in the vicinity of the Ramlat Unayq, near the Dhahir mountains north of Al Ain. The party is travelling from Al Ain to Jabal Sumeini. In the foreground a line of tracks marks sand dotted with small tufts of vegetation. In the near distance three members of Wilfred Thesiger's party trek through the sands with their camels. On the far right, one man stands on the crest of a low sand

carrying a blackware pottery vessel on her head

at a ruined fort in the cliffs above Andhur spring

Behind him three camels stand around the trough

On the far right Sahail bin Tahi

Three-quarter length seated portrait of Captain Haji Mansur on his dhow (sailboat) in the Persian Gulf near Bahrain

the houses sometimes reaching a height of three stor[ey]s

Group portrait of men and boys standing in a crowd at the Suq al Khamis [Thursday market] in the town of Najran

The man on the left also holds a camel stick in his hand

while in the distance a high mountain rises above the horizon

Portrait of a man holding two spears

A falconer's mangalah (cuff) lies in the sand to the right of the wakir

and looks directly forward