Half length seated portrait of ... Type:art print

Half length seated portrait of ... Type:art printHalf length seated portrait of Salim bin Kabina, one of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling companions, in the region surrounding Al Ain Buraimi Oasis. Salim bin Kabina, a tribesman of the Bayt Imani lineage of Rashid Bedouin, sits facing forward. He wears a cartridge belt with a khanjar (dagger) over his thobe (shirt) and a headscarf topped with an 'agal (head rope). Beneath his headscarf, his long hair falls down one side of his chest in a loose braid.

View of a man standing in a field in front of a tower house in the town of Dhahran

In the foreground a large boulder rests on a steeply sloping hillside

leaning on some ropes

which are grazing on bushes

a Sunday and therefore a day off for the Mission staff

Behind him three camels graze in the sand

talking with Wilfred Thesiger

in which Hasan bin Manati

View of a salt flat (sabkha) with sparse vegetation in Liwa oasis

View of two members of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party on the crest of a sand dune in the Ramlat al Ghirbaniyat (Ghirbaniyat Sands)

View of beached dhows (sailboats) and a dhow sailing in Dubai Creek

View of a dhow in Dubai Creek at sunset