Profile portrait of a camel ... Type:stretched canvas

Profile portrait of a camel ... Type:stretched canvasProfile portrait of a camel, owned by Wilfred Thesiger in 1950, standing in the Ramlat ar Rabbad sands. The camel stands facing towards the left beside a bush growing on a sand dune. It is heavily loaded and it wears the traditional form of guiding harness, which consists of a chain halter, a neck rope, and a head rope. In the background clumps of vegetation grow scattered on a flat depression between sand dunes. Due to the nature of these images,

spear fishing on Umm al Abid

A low rock escarpment rises above the plain at the far right

wearing a decorated hat

On the right a man stands nearby in the sand

Small shrubs grow in the rocky soil

Pargo Kaling

its body facing towards the near left and its head facing back towards the right

Behind it a tall boom

with Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party resting in the foreground

as well as a medical barge pushed along in front

In the foreground a group of women carrying baskets and other items on their heads walk past a man standing on the right

In the far distance beyond the mountain Jabal Hafit (Jebel Hafeet) can be seen above the horizon