Standing full length portrait of ... Size:medium

Standing full length portrait of ... Size:mediumStanding full length portrait of a middle aged Arab man, one of Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan's falconers, holding a falcon in the sands near Al Ain. A falconer in a light coloured thobe (long shirt) topped with a khanjar (dagger) on a leather belt holds a peregrine falcon on a mangalah (cuff) on his arm. The falcon wears a leather burqa (hood) decorated with a strip of leather. Behind him, on the left, a desiccated tree grows in the sand. Due to

Portrait of Thesiger in Arab dress in the Empty Quarter of the UAE

In the left foreground a square room with small windows sit atop a roof on a building

used for building houses

Portrait of an elderly bearded man

and a man standing in the foreground

holding a rifle across his shoulders

Two men rest behind them

All the men wear thobes (long shirts) and headscarves (ghutra)

carrying a knife in his waistband

and later accompanied Wilfred Thesiger on all his journeys in the Rub' al Khali (Empty Quarter)

in which a few traders and buyers are gathered

and is blinded with a leather hood