Standing full length portrait of ... Sue Johnson

Standing full length portrait of ... Sue JohnsonStanding full length portrait of an Arab falconer, a member of Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan's hunting party, in the Al Khatam sands near Al Ain. A man wearing a ghutra (headscarf) and a light coloured thobe (long shirt) topped with a cartridge belt and leather suspenders stands in an expanse of sand. The man has curly hair and a thick full beard. He holds camel stick in one hand. In the distance behind him small shrubs and bushes grow on a

the Zunis repair hither in the spring for the purpose of pasturing their herds or raising small patches of wheat

Salim bin Kabina is holding a large camel bone

View of a crowd of people of the Fartus tribe

He is scratching his cheek with his thumb and wears a khanjar (dagger) on a cartridge belt over his thobe (shirt) and a white headscarf

In the background clumps of vegetation grow scattered on a flat depression between sand dunes

holding a peregrine falcon on a mangalah (cuff) on his arm

Feathers and a few sprigs of dry grass lie in the sand

into which a tuft of feathers has been stuffed into its barrel

An old man with a curly grey beard sits with a striped blanket hanging over one of his shoulders sits resting his forearms on his knees

On the left three men load up their couched camels

hauling on a well rope

domed building