Seated portrait of one of ... Type:unstretched canvasSeated portrait of one of Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan's retainers at Al Ain. The man kneels in the sand holding a rifle in his right hand. He wears a dark coloured thobe (long shirt), a plain headscarf (ghutra) topped with agal (head ropes), and a khanjar (dagger) tucked into his cartridge belt. In the background the sand is bare of vegetation, and in the far distance there is a line of trees. This image was taken during April 6 30, 1948, when
The Dalai Lama would sit on the rug by the low table
In the foreground a large bush grows at the side of a small patch of wind rippled sand
In the distance beyond a flat plain of sand is bordered by a line of trees in the far background
and in the far background high mountains rise in the distance
View of dunes in the Al Dhafra sands between Dhibi well and Al Batin sands in the Empty Quarter (Rub' al Khali)
View of Jahili Fort at Al Ain
In the foreground Arab men unload bags of cargo from a few couched camels
one of whom carries the head of a Barbary sheep (shot in the Jabal Meidob hills) over his shoulders
ringed by men watching the action
they are on the way from Besud to Jalalabad
Behind him are a few more ridges of dunes
Fort at Najran with towers on the corners and ornamental stonework on top of the walls
