Group portrait of a crowd ... Size:medium

Group portrait of a crowd ... Size:mediumGroup portrait of a crowd of Arab or Bedouin men sitting in a circle outside a building in the region of Al Ain oasis. A number of men holding rifles and camel sticks sit in a circle in half shade. All the men wear thobes (long shirts) and headscarves (ghutra). At the centre of the group a young boy sits in front of an older man. In the far left background an adobe building with triangular wall decorations is visible. This image was taken during April

View of men gathered around several large bundles of giant reeds

In the distance tall builds sit along the foot of a high rock escarpment

On the left members of Wilfred Thesiger's party sit with a group of Wahiba Bedouin beside a large tree on a flat plain

In the foreground a man and a woman unload a large camel

Firewood is piled up behind the fire

Behind them a crowd waits beside the well while a few men use ropes and pulleys to get water from the well

shot by Thesiger to feed them

The rope is attached to a bucket which the man in the centre (Salim bin Kabina

At the centre one man is drinking from a metal bowl

named Munzuk [Murzuk]

He holds a carpet on his lap

donkeys and other livestock in a large square