Portrait of three Manasir Bedouin ... India

Portrait of three Manasir Bedouin ... IndiaPortrait of three Manasir Bedouin at their encampment in the Al Khatam sands near Al Ain. On the left an elder man with a trimmed grey beard sits in profile beside a clutch of branches at the entrance to a large tent made from striped woven blankets and large woven palm mats. At the centre a boy sits behind two large pots cooking on a campfire in front of the tent. Behind him a young boy stands in the shade inside the tent. On the right a pile of dry

In wind-rippled water two small dhows are moored alongside a boom

According to James Stevenson's original note for this photograph (prepared circa 1885)

and a girl at the far right walk along the Corniche road

grow in neat rows in a depression

One man holds a coffee mortar while a coffee-pot heats on the fire

View of the wall of a large building in the city of Shibam

Thesiger's party at the start of the journey into the Empty Quarter in the Uruq al Zaza

View of two Samburu moran (warriors)

View of buildings at a settlement

The man is holding a rifled

It wears a thin neck rope

The man beside half kneels