Seated portrait of a tribesman ... Frame:goldSeated portrait of a tribesman of the Rashid Bedouin at Muhammad's encampment near Bir al Tawil in the Ramlat ar Rabbad. Wilfred Thesiger and his men stayed with Muhammad, a sheikh of the Rashid Bedouin, and his sons in the Ramlat ar Rabbad for a few days during their first crossing of the Empty Quarter (Rub' al Khali) in December 1946. The man, one of Muhammad's sons, is kneeling in the sand next to a fire, holding a kettle with his right hand. Due
The British Mission lunch with the Lord Chamberlain
follows along at the back of the group
Portrait of a young man of the 'Ifaar Bedouin at the Habarut wells
On the left an Arab falconer carries a hooded falcon on a mangalah (cuff) on his arm
On the right a man stands nearby in the sand
Three saddled camels are couched on a small patch of sandy ground in a bare rocky plain
View of men at an encampment of tents
holding a falcon in the sands near Al Ain
and in the far distance a jagged mountain rises above the horizon
In the foreground two men crouch and one man stands in the midst of a group of palm leaf traders
carrying a rifle over his left shoulder
being towed with a rope by three young men walking at the water's edge
