Portrait of Salim bin Kabina ... Special Orders

Portrait of Salim bin Kabina ... Special OrdersPortrait of Salim bin Kabina, one of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling companions, standing in the midst of a camp during the party's journey from the Wadi al 'Ayn to the Ramlat al Ghirbaniyat (Ghirbaniyat Sands). Salim bin Kabina, a tribesman of the Bayt Imani lineage of Rashid Bedouin is wearing a cartridge belt over his thobe (shirt), and a dark coloured headscarf. In the background two of the party's camels are walking across the far side of the dune.

the yarn is allowed to be taken up on the upper end of the shaft

In the near distance three of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling companions are walking along a road across a rocky hillside

Long low buildings with many doorways line the street

stands next to a well pouring water into a mud trough

View of three camels belonging to Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party in the Al Dhafra sands during the party's journey to Baynunah

A young Bedouin man with a short moustache bends over a rolled cloth lying at his feet in the foreground

On his shoulder sits a young child

Flies gather on the boy's face and clothes

In the foreground two men stand in the tide beside with their donkey

Behind him on the left a dry bush grows in the sand

In the foreground a line of tracks cross the middle of an expanse of wind-rippled sand

In the left foreground a man buys grain from a trader