Close-up portrait of the head ... Afghanistan

Close-up portrait of the head ... AfghanistanClose up portrait of the head of a Batina camel named Ghazala ('the gazelle'), a famous thoroughbred Batina camel owned by Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan and renowned for its beauty and speed. The camel faces towards the left, and wears a chain halter attached to a head rope. Behind the camel bushes grow in the sand. Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan loaned Ghazala to Wilfred Thesiger for his May 1 10, 1948 journey from Al Ain oasis to Sharjah. Due

facing directly foreward

stands in the near left

one white and one brown

Sparse vegetation covers a sandy plain

nearby a second moored dhow

Half length portrait of a young man of the Bayt Kathir Bedouin in the Wadi Shutaynah or Wadi 'Aydim

a sheikh of the Musaifar lineage of Rashid Bedouin and a member of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party

wearing a patterned ghutra (headscarf) topped with an 'agal (head rope) and khanjar (dagger) over his thobe (long shirt)

In the background a few more dhows are moored in the far distance

Behind them the sea stretches out uninterrupted to the far horizon

two members of the party lead camels across rolling sands towards the foreground

King's New Year