Full length profile portrait of ... Images of Wilfred Thesiger

Full length profile portrait of ... Images of Wilfred ThesigerFull length profile portrait of an Arab man, one of Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan's falconers, carrying a falcon in the sands surrounding Al Ain. The man stands facing towards the right. He is carrying a wakir (block) in his right hand, and a hooded passage peregrine falcon on a mangalah (cuff) on his left hand. He also carries a rifle on his left shoulder, into which a tuft of feathers has been stuffed into its barrel, in order to prevent sand

He is wearing a light-coloured thobe (shirt) topped with a khanjar (dagger) on a cartridge belt and suspenders

Men stand in a circle around a group of four drummers

holding a peregrine falcon on his right arm

View of Wilfred Thesiger's party trekking across dunes in Al Humrah sands during their journey to Umm az Zumul

She has applied a beauty spot to her forehead

Men crowd the deck of the dhow

A peregrine falcon

feeing a peregrine falcon with the brains of a bustard which it has killed

with bundles of reeds lying on the ground

its bow pointing to the right

A peregrine falcon perches on a carved wooden wakir (block) staked in the sand

Profile portrait of Salim bin Ghabaisha and Salim bin Kabina