Portrait of sailors rowing a ... Frame:natural

Portrait of sailors rowing a ... Frame:naturalPortrait of sailors rowing a dhow (sailboat) on which Wilfred Thesiger sailed with Sheikh Hazaa bin Sultan Al Nahyan and his retainers. A number of men sit on the gunwale of a sailboat, holding oars. On the left two sailors pull on a large wooden oar, holding it out over the water. A drum barrel rests against the side of the boat in front of them. In the nearer foreground a second pair of sailors holds another wooden oar. In the far right background,

In the far background a high shade canopy crosses the road on which people are walking

On the left two water sellers stand in a boat beside a waiting donkey

In front of him a tea urn sits beside a bag in the sand while nearby a coffee urn heats on the fire

looking into the foreground

In the foreground traders stand with their baskets of merchandise

at Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan's encampment near Jebel Hafeet [Jabal Hafit]

sits in the foreground

with Bakhtiari nomads and their livestock in the foreground

looking out across the horizon

in which there are six men

A man in a white thobe (long shirt) and ghutra (headscarf) stands next to the stern of the baghla

A group of sailors stand together on the deck