Standing three-quarter length portrait of ... Special OrdersStanding three quarter length portrait of Muhammad bin Al Jabari, one of Wilfred Thesiger's Bedouin guides, in the Wadi al 'Ayn. Muhammad bin Al Jabari, a tribesman of the Awamir Bedouin, stands in the foreground holding a length of rope. He wears a light thobe (shirt) topped with a cartridge belt and dagger. In the distance behind him two trees grow. Due to the nature of these images, prints will reproduce any signs of age, wear or damage that
In the distance beyond the sea stretches out empty and uninterrupted to the far horizon
one standing and one seated
a samurai and officer (performing the function of deputy secretary) on the 1864 Ikeda mission to France
and looks off into the far distance
Other people and huts in the background
In the foreground a line of tracks cross the middle of a large sloping expanse of sand
In the far distance beyond Jebel Hafeet (Jabal Hafit) rises high above the flat plain in the far right distance
in which there is a cargo of dry reeds
On the right a second tomb is visible
In the distance behind him tufts of qassis (sedge) and other vegetation grow on a flat expanse of sand sitting below a sky dotted with scattered clouds
a sheikh of the Duru tribe
Around his waist he wears a cartridge belt attached to leather bandoliers
