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Half-length portrait of one of ... Frame:whiteHalf length portrait of one of Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan's retainers at Al Ain. The man wears a thobe (long shirt) and an embroidered headscarf (ghutra) topped with thin black agal (head ropes). The handle of a khanjar (dagger) can be seen at his waist. This image was taken during April 6 30, 1948, when Wilfred Thesiger stayed at Al Muwaiji fort in Al Ain as a guest of Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan. Due to the nature of these images,

The photograph shows the north face of a carved stone zoomorph known by archaeologists as Zoomorph P

Portrait of Sheikh Salim bin Tamtaim of the Beit Kathir tribe

View of two members of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party at a well in Al Batin sands

Each man's mount is followed by a baggage camel

The hut has rock walls and a thatched roof

Group portrait of Arab boys in the city of Abha

leans against a wall facing forward

Portrait of a man (named Sulaim)

a man waits on the crest of the dune with his camels

and in the far distance men stand at stalls

past piles of coral

the Emir of the Shahran tribes