Profile portrait of a tribesman ... Frame:black

Profile portrait of a tribesman ... Frame:blackProfile portrait of a tribesman of the Junuba Bedouin, one of the retainers of Sulaiman bin Hamyiar, in the region west of the Hamrat ad Duru. A tribesman of the Junuba Bedouin holds his hand in front of his mouth and faces towards to the left. He wears a thobe (shirt) and an embroidered headscarf that has a whole in it. This man was sent by Sulaiman bin Hamyiar to accompany Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party from Al Hubi village to Al Ain. Sulaiman

'arish huts and enclosures made from palm fronds sit in the sand along the shore

standing on a rock

a desiccated tree grows in the sand

Tsarong wearing ceremonial dress at New Year in 1937

View of Wilfred Thesiger's party camping with Duru Bedouin in the Wadi al 'Ayn

and in the far distance there is a line of trees

Behind each man's mount baggage camels follow on leads

A crowd of people from the Bani Malik tribe sit under a canopy of trees

the opening of which has been reenforced with concrete or rammed earth

In the left background a smaller dhow and a rowboat are moored along the shore

View of people playing in Dubai Creek and a sailing dhow

View of Wilfred Thesiger's party's camels grazing in sand dunes in Wadi Samhan