Profile portrait of a tribesman ... Frame:gold

Profile portrait of a tribesman ... Frame:goldProfile portrait of a tribesman of the Manasir Bedouin, a falconer in Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan's hunting party, in the Al Khatam sands near Al Ain. A man with a pointed beard poses in profile, facing towards the right. He wears a ghutra (headscarf) wrapped closely around his head and a coloured thobe (long shirt). He is smiling and his eyes are closed. This image was taken between December 20, 1948, and January 27, 1949, during which time

wearing a large dagger in a scabbard across his waist

The man stands facing towards the right

View of Wilfred Thesiger's Bedouin travelling party taking a rest on sandy ground in a wadi north of the town of Al-Saum

In the background a few men stroll through the square

walk camels in a trough between low dunes

In the distance beyond the dunes a vast flat stretches into the distance

with people gathered on the street in the foreground

Seated portrait of an old Arab man at the village of Sawda

The man on the far left holds a rifle

He is wearing a broad-brimmed straw hat

In the far distance a number of dhows are moored

Behind him a vast sand flat dotted with small tufts of vegetation stretches without interruption into the far horizon