Close up profile portrait of ... Type:stretched canvasClose up profile portrait of a thoroughbred Omani camel belonging to Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan, taken in the Al Khatam sands near Al Ain. The head and neck of a thoroughbred Omani face towards the left in a profile pose. The camel's mouth is slightly open and it has thick hair along its neck near its head. This image was taken between December 20, 1948, and January 27, 1949, during which time Wilfred Thesiger stayed with Sheikh Zayed bin
Portrait of a man and two boys
Seated portrait of an Arab or Bedouin man at Sheikh Zayid bin Sultan Al Nahyan's hunting camp in Al Khatam sands near Al Ain
The balcony is supported by columns and fronts on to an interior courtyard in the palace
A sailor rests during his climb up the mast of a dhow
Behind the boy is a cluster of typical adobe and raqf (slate) tile buildings
In the foreground a group of sailors stand in two lines beneath the dhow's main yard
Half-length seated portrait of one of Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan's Bedouin retainers in Al Ain
pouring a bucket of dirty water into the sand
On the right two porters carry cargo on their shoulders
In the near right foreground a lifeboat filled with sails and rigging sits on the deck of the dhow
View of the crests of sand dunes in the Ramlat al Ghirbaniyat (Ghirbaniyat Sands)
Sertreng ceremony (tshogs mchod ser spreng) on the 30th day of the 2nd Tibetan month
