View of Wilfred Thesiger's sailing ... India

View of Wilfred Thesiger's sailing ... IndiaView of Wilfred Thesiger's sailing companions sitting on the deck of a sailboat (dhow) in the Abu Dhabi islands. A large group of men and boys sits on the stern deck of a sailing ship in a calm sea. The men are crowded together on deck, and all wear headscarves for protection from the strong sun. In the foreground, Sheikh Hazaa bin Sultan Al Nahyan sits at the far right, holding a small boy in his lap. He wears a waistcoat over his thobe (shirt) and a

Behind them two storey buildings fronted with wooden canopies line the square

View of men dancing at a circumcision celebration

On the left behind him a water barrel sits in the sand

View of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party resting at the southern end of Jabal Hafit (Jebel Hafeet)

Nearby piles of coral

View from behind of a boy standing in the bow of a mashuf (canoe)

with a large bronze cauldron in the foreground

Portrait of a youth shortly after his circumcision

second from left) and another Druze soldier

View of Al Kathiri Palace in Seiyun

At Laduma's kraal

On his head he wears dark coloured headscarf topped with an 'agal (head rope)