Seated portrait of an Arab ... TibetSeated portrait of an Arab falconer, a member of Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan's hunting party, holding a peregrine falcon in Al Khatam sands near Al Ain. A young Arab man kneels in sand, facing forward, holding a peregrine falcon perched on a mangalah (cuff) he wears on his hand. He is wearing a plain ghutra (headscarf) tied closely around his head and a thobe (long shirt). The falcon perches in profile on the mangalah, facing towards the left.
A saddled thoroughbred Omani camel stands in profile to the right of the falconer
Water fills the foreground
In the central foreground a low ridge is marked by a large
He is carrying a wakir (block) in his right hand
View of a member of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party trekking across the crest of a dune in Al Batin sands during their journey across the Empty Quarter (Rub' al Khali) from Al Dhafra sands to Liwa oasis
and in the far distance a jagged mountain rises above the horizon
View of people at Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan's encampment near Jebel Hafeet [Jabal Hafit]
on a MacQueen's Bustard that it has killed
moored in the port at Mahón
In the foreground falconer wearing a light coloured thobe (long shirt) topped with a cartridge belt and khanjar (dagger) stands in a patch of bare sand
View of a member of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party standing in country north of Al Ain/Buraimi oasis in the area between Ramlat Unayq and Jabal Sumeini
migrating in the autumn from the Zagros range of mountains down to the plains
