Close up portrait of an ... Size:medium

Close up portrait of an ... Size:mediumClose up portrait of an elderly Bedouin man standing in front of a wall in Dubai. An elderly Bedouin man with a large white beard stands in front of a white rock wall. He wears a large ghutra (headscarf) and a thobe (shirt). Wilfred Thesiger has described this Bedouin man both as a Mansuri (a tribesman of the Manasir Bedouin) and as a tribesman of the Murra tribe. This image was taken during Wilfred Thesiger's May 10 18, 1948 stay in Sharjah and

a ford between Abu Dhabi and the mainland

In the far distance on the right a mountain rises along the horizon

He is cradling a bag

on a dune overlooking a salt flat in Liwa oasis

sits second from the right beside Wilfred Thesiger

into which a tuft of feathers has been stuffed into its barrel

stands to the left of the men

facing towards the left

also sit on blocks

possibly Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan

migrating from Lake Shiva above the Oxus valley back to winter pastures

In the background is a tree and two standing camels