Full length sanding portrait of ... Tibet

Full length sanding portrait of ... TibetFull length sanding portrait of an Arab man with a donkey in the Al Ain Buraimi oasis. An Arab man stands facing forward in front of a small loaded donkey. In his hands he holds the head rope for the donkey and a riding stick. The man wears a khanjar (dagger) on a belt and a waistcoat over his coloured thobe (long shirt). He also wears a patterned ghutra (headscarf) hanging loosely around his head and shoulders, which is topped with an 'agal (head

both holding poling sticks

View of a boat carrying a load of fodder

Behind him another man stands on the right

walks past a thick clump of vegetation holding a camel stick

after which time it is worn down

Wilfred Thesiger and his men stayed with Muhammad

the brush end is flattened by the hand and thumb

its wings tucked behind its chest

View of laden camels

especially the metate

some in a state of ruin

The man is a sheikh of the Bayt Imani lineage of Rashid Bedouin