Profile portrait of an Arab ... Jacques-Philippe PotteauProfile portrait of an Arab man, one of Wilfred Thesiger's guides, riding a camel during the party's journey from Jabal Sumeini to the port city of Sharjah. The man, a retainer of Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan, kneels in his saddle facing towards the left [the camel's lower legs are cut off by the bottom frame]. The man wears a thobe (long shirt) topped with a cartridge belt and wears his ghutra (headscarf) wrapped closely around his head and
In is in a state of disrepair
He wears a thobe (long shirt)
a young boy wears a large check patterned headscarf
View of a member of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party riding a camel during the party's journey from Khawr bin 'Atarit well in the Ghanim Sands to the Ramlat al Ghafah
The large building decorated with thick horizontal stripes of plaster is the Sultan's Palace
The bed of the wadi is strewn with small rocks
In the distant sand on the right
View of a stream flowing down the side of the Yarkhun valley
In the background a woman walks towards the tree
Half length standing portrait of a tribesman of the Duru Bedouin at Al Ain
In the left foreground an Arab falconer from Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan's hunting party sits in the sand beside a coffee urn and a kettle
He wears a decorated cartridge belt over his thobe (long shirt)
