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View of a member of ... Africa 2View of a member of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party standing beside a camel at a palm grove in Liwa oasis. In the foreground one of Wilfred's Rashid Bedouin companions stands between two couched camels in an expanse of soft sand. The man has his back turned to the camera and is looking towards a palm grove, likely cultivated by Bani Yas villagers, in the far distance. The man wears a cartridge belt over his light coloured thobe (long shirt) and a

One man stands to the right of the group

almost bare of vegetation

holding a saker (hurr) falcon in the sands surrounding Al Ain

A long buck-skin strip about four inches wide which is attached to the moccasin is wrapped around the leg nearly to the knee

wearing a shirt and a wraparound skirt

Wilfred Thesiger's party camping in the Wadi Madi during their journey to Al Mukalla

Portrait of Wilfred Thesiger's Rashid Bedouin companions at a well in a date palm grove at Liwa oasis

stands with his back to the camera

and on the far right a piece of wood sits in the sand

A peregrine falcon perches on a carved wooden wakir (block) staked in the sand

A third camel grazes on a bush

View of a Bin Maaruf nomad (of the Saar tribe) with a camel which carries a litter made of wood and cloth on its back