Standing profile portrait of Musallim ... Alfred Maudslay

Standing profile portrait of Musallim ... Alfred MaudslayStanding profile portrait of Musallim bin Al Kamam, a member of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party, in the Al Dhafra sands during the party's journey to Baynunah. Musallim bin Al Kamam, a sheikh of the Musaifar lineage of Rashid Bedouin, stands in the centre of a stretch of flat sand rippled by the wind. He holds a rifle over his shoulder and pokes his camel stick into a clump of qassis (sedge) on the right. Behind him a dry bush and scattered tufts

View of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party resting with their camels

Trees grow on the plain in the background

In the background a large bush grows in the sand directly behind them

View of kasbahs (fortresses and surrounding quarters) at Ghasat

Two men stand in the distance at the edge of the water

In the foreground the man stands alongside a taunt rope

one in the left foreground and one further behind

sitting in camp near the Wadi Samhan

In the foreground a woman stands with her child while a man waters a donkey

A boy is standing beside a well with a carrying basket

A high plateau rises in the distance

He grips the mast with his legs