Seated portrait of Wilfred Thesiger ... Africa 2

Seated portrait of Wilfred Thesiger ... Africa 2Seated portrait of Wilfred Thesiger and Salim bin Kabina at the southern end of Jabal Hafit (Jebel Hafeet), near Al Qabil. Wilfred Thesiger (left) and Salim bin Kabina (right), a tribesman of the Bayt Imani lineage of Rashid Bedouin, kneel in pebbly ground. Each holds a rifle and each wears a cartridge belt with suspenders over their thobe (shirt). In the background the limestone cliffs of Jabal Hafit (Jebel Hafeet) rise in the distance. Due to the

Palm grove at Ghayl bin Yamayn

A man and two boys of the Mahra Bedouin at a well in Wadi Shalhamit

On the right two men stand on a stone platform

In the far left distance

In the foreground a number of young date palms

leaning heavily to the left side

In the right foreground a peregrine falcon belonging to Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan's hunting party stands on a stone curlew

This is carried out after Samburu circumcisions

He wears a patterned ghutra (headscarf)

and on the right two more members of the party sit beside a shade canopy erected in a small stand of bushes

who accompanied Wilfred Thesiger from 'Izz to Al Muwaiji

In the foreground boulders and shale sit at the bottom of the cliff