Seated portrait of Muhammad, a ... Type:unstretched canvas

Seated portrait of Muhammad, a ... Type:unstretched canvasSeated portrait of Muhammad, a sheikh of the Rashid Bedouin, at his encampment in the Ramlat ar Rabbad sands near Bir al Tawil. Muhammad, an elderly man with a long white beard, sits next to a camel saddle. He is tying a bundle of fibres together. Wilfred Thesiger and his men stayed with Muhammad and his extended family in the Ramlat ar Rabbad for a few days during their first crossing of the Empty Quarter (Rub' al Khali) in December 1946. Due to the

In the foreground an expanse of wind-rippled sand is dotted with tracks and footprints

standing on the left

with a child standing in front of her

415 metres)

gathered around a dead wild boar

Tall mud buildings line both sides of the street

The kotia has a transom stern that is steeply inclined

located about seventy-five miles north-east of Santa Fe

holding a bow and arrows

also know as the Asiatic Wild Dog or Red Dog

spreads out into the distance

and holding two spears over his right shoulder