View of Sheikh Zayed bin ... Frame:noneView of Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan's hunting party setting up camp in Al Khatam sands near Al Ain. In the near distance a group of men unload their camels in the midst of a vast flat plain dotted with scattered clumps of vegetation. In the far background a ridge of low dunes borders the flat along the horizon in the far distance. This image was taken between December 20, 1948, and January 27, 1949, during which time Wilfred Thesiger stayed with
about twelve miles east of Albuquerque
He is wearing a ghutra (headscarf) and a thobe (long shirt)
Above the dhows the sky is cloudless
with buffaloes prominent at the left and centre of the image
Just behind three men fix the loads on two couched camels
with a man standing beside a horse at the left of the image
He has been adorned with woman's earrings and an ostrich feather headdress with small birds hanging from the back of the neck
Wilfred Thesiger sits in the sand holding a camel stick in his lap with both hands
sits on the sand with its bow pointing towards ocean
at the southern end of the mountain Jabal Hafit (Jebel Hafeet)
heading into the central distance
View of a boy walking past Al Fahidi fort in the Bastakiya quarter of old Dubai
