Upper body portrait of two ... Size:large

Upper body portrait of two ... Size:largeUpper body portrait of two men in Al Ain Buraimi oasis. Two Arab men wearing thobe (long shirts) and ghutra (headscarves) stand side by side in an open grassy area. Behind the men a few shrubs can be seen in the far distance. This image was taken during April 6 30, 1948, when Wilfred Thesiger stayed at Al Muwaiji fort in Al Ain as a guest of Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan. Due to the nature of these images, prints will reproduce any signs of age,

The ground around them is dry and strewn with rocks and small pebbles

In the background scattered patches of grass grow on the dry plain

On the left wood is piled up on the shore beside a donkey and some beached rowboats

A small white domed building with a palm tree next to it

In the central foreground a small boat

and wearing black ostrich feather headdresses and holding bows and blunted arrows for use during the final part of the lengthy circumcision ritual

Four of Sheikh Zayed's falconers

Standing portrait of two falconers in Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan's hunting party

and several large flags being waved overhead

View of a dhow in Dubai Creek at sunset

squats on a rock holding a rifle in his hands

Beside him the camels are grazing on a clump of vegetation