Seated portrait of a tribesman ... Type:unstretched canvas

Seated portrait of a tribesman ... Type:unstretched canvasSeated portrait of a tribesman of the Rashid Bedouin at an encampment near Bir al Tawil in the Ramlat ar Rabbad. This man is the son of Muhammad, a sheikh of the Rashid Bedouin, with whom Wilfred Thesiger stayed for a few days during his first crossing of the Empty Quarter (Rub' al Khali). He is sitting cross legged in the sand next to a small pile of firewood and a mat piled high with chunks of meat. In his right hand he holds a large curved dagger.

Two men walk camels down the side of a low sand dune

in the Persian Gulf between Dubai Emirate and Bahrain Island

View of the monolithic rock-hewn church of Giorgis at Lalibela

looking into the foreground

Pargo Kaling

In the background a line of low hills rises in the far left distance

a sixteen or seventeen year old boy of the Bayt Imani lineage of Rashid Bedouin

Side view of a boom

The jewellery is very heavy with the earrings being made of gold and turquoise and the amulet made of gold

with a mosque prominent in the foreground

and a large tree and a few tufts of grass grow on the plain behind them

In the background a large grove of date palms grows in the sand