Portrait of three members of ... Frame:natural

Portrait of three members of ... Frame:naturalPortrait of three members of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party at a well in the Al Dhafra or Baynunah sands. At the far left a camel watches as Musallim bin Al Kamam, a sheikh of the Musaifar lineage of Rashid Bedouin (centre left), stands in sand litter with camel droppings holding a metal pot. Musallim bin Al Kamam's head is bare and he wears only a wraparound skirt. At the centre another of Wilfred Thesiger's Rashid Bedouin companions stands

holding a stick and carrying a basket of fodder on his back

He is sitting cross-legged in the sand next to a small pile of firewood and a mat piled high with chunks of meat

while beyond low dunes stretch into the far horizon

The sand is marked by a line of tracks on the right

A man is walking alongside the fort walls

Behind him is a ridge of small bushes

A nun showing a religious picture to passers-by on a road

The ground below the camel is covered in fine sand dotted with small vegetation

walking in a line

In the distance a number of booms

On the left one man unloads gear from a couched camel

looking out into the distance