Portrait of a Bedouin family ... Type:art print

Portrait of a Bedouin family ... Type:art printPortrait of a Bedouin family riding camels in the region surrounding the town of Al Hufuf, taken during Wilfred Thesiger's journey from Al Hofuf to Ar Rumhiya wells. On the left a man and a boy ride a large black camel, while on the right an older boy rides alone on a small grey camel. In the distance beyond sparse tufts of vegetation dot a vast flat plain. Due to the nature of these images, prints will reproduce any signs of age, wear or damage that

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

Musallim bin Al Kamam

Behind the compound a tall building

used for building houses

holding a peregrine falcon (shahin) in the sands near Al Ain

Muhammad bin Fadil's ghutra (headscarf) is blown back behind his shoulders by the wind and he holds a camel stick up in the air with one hand

Portrait of a Samburu moran (warrior)

a Sayid (person having or claiming descent from the Prophet)

In the distance Jabal Harfa rises in a high rocky point at the centre of the valley

Portrait of the exiled Emperor Haile Selassie

its head looking up into the sky

In the foreground a wave breaks on the sand