Seated group portrait of four ... Size:mediumSeated group portrait of four of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling companions taken during the party's journey from Ayun to Mudayy. In the background Abdullah bin Misad, a tribesman of the Rashid Bedouin, kneels in the sand at the far left. He has a long headscarf wrapped closely around his face. In the central foreground Said bin Musallim, also of the Rashid Bedouin, leans forward on his elbows. At the far right Sultan bin Ahmad, a sheikh of the Sh'asha
In the far distance a line of low dunes rises just above the rocky plain
one in a boat and the other sitting on a mud bank
crouches in the foreground
on their journey towards Al Humrah sands
In the background number of people walk along a market thoroughfare
View of four people standing beside several boats at a settlement in the Marshes
standing in the doorway of a yurt
may be Sheikh Tahnoun bin Mohammed Al Nahyan
a centre of the Zoroastrian community
An old man with a curly grey beard sits with a striped blanket hanging over one of his shoulders
one of Wilfred Thesiger's canoe-boys
Beyond them rolling dunes rise along the horizon below a cloudless sky
