Seated close up portrait of ... Africa

Seated close up portrait of ... AfricaSeated close up portrait of an elder Bedouin man at a fort (likely Al Muwaiji Fort) in Al Ain. An elder Bedouin man with a long goatee sits with his body facing towards the left and his head turned forward. He wears a thobe (long shirt) and a plain ghutra (headscarf) topped with a dark 'agal (head rope). His ghutra hangs loosely around his head and down over his chest. Behind him a large bush and a tall tree grow outside the walls of a fort. This

The man is wearing his daggers (jambiya or khanjar) in a horizontal manner in a style typical of this region

A watchtower is visible in the background

Frederick Spencer Chapman with a cine camera in the Lhasa area

Wooden grates and bars cover most windows

Another girl and a baby are visible in the background

One of the men holds a length of rope

the father of Salim

In the background traders and shoppers cluster in a large open area

Behind the camels on the right a Manasir man and girl stand in front of a tent

View of Wilfred Thesiger's sailing companions sitting on the deck of a sailboat (dhow) in the Abu Dhabi islands

standing in the Al Khatam sands south of Al Ain

A saluki hunting dog lies sleeping in the sand at the base of the wakir