Seated profile portrait of Musallim ... Frame:none

Seated profile portrait of Musallim ... Frame:noneSeated profile portrait of Musallim bin Al Kamam, a member of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party, resting in the Al Dhafra sands during the party's journey to Baynunah. On the left Musallim bin Al Kamam, a sheikh of the Musaifar lineage of Rashid Bedouin, sits cross legged on a stretch of wind rippled sand, near the edge crescent shaped depression. He holds a rifle and a camel stick in his hands. Below him on the right two large bushes grow in the

In the far background date palms cultivated by Bani Yas villagers grow scattered across the sand

In the distance beyond a low hill rises in the far background

In the near right foreground two large hadh (Cornulaca monacantha) bushes grow in the sand

View of boats in the harbour at Zanzibar City

Four men sit in the sand facing forward

In the background a few camels rest on a vast barren plain behind them

with the prow of Wilfred Thesiger's tarada (sheikh's canoe) prominent in the foreground

a dry river bed

In the far distance beyond vast rolling dunes spreads out below a far rocky mountain

A rowboat is tied to the stern of the boom

which is made up of a large heap of stones

In the left distance a large enclave of 'arish huts and enclosures made from palm fronds sit in the sand