Three-quarter length portrait of two ... Thesiger Collection

Three-quarter length portrait of two ... Thesiger CollectionThree quarter length portrait of two Duru women and a child at a well north of Al Ain. Two women and a child stand in the sand beside a wooden post hung with gear. The woman on the right has her arms around a young boy standing in front of her. Both women wear burqa (masks) over their faces and black scarves over their upper bodies. The woman on the left holds a water skin in her hands. The women were on their way to Dubai from Al Ain. Due to the

People walk through a crowded street lined with market traders sitting at makeshift stalls

Fenced enclosures

View of the Nile paddle-steamer Kereri

The boy is playing with one of a few model boats which float in the water around them

a tribesman of the Mahra Bedouin

In the central foreground a tall date palm tree grows beside a depression on the left

with camels in the distance behind her

In the distance groves of palm trees grow in the wadi behind the city

with a young man standing behind him

View of limestone cliffs on Jebel Hafeet [Jabal Hafit] mountain

A smiling man with a thin curly beard faces directly forward

View of mountains