Portrait of Sheikh Hazaa bin ... Special Orders

Portrait of Sheikh Hazaa bin ... Special OrdersPortrait of Sheikh Hazaa bin Sultan Al Nahyan on a dhow (sailboat) in the Abu Dhabi islands. Sheikh Hazaa bin Sultan Al Nahyan stands on a sailboat, holding on to the boat's awning frame. He is wearing a white headscarf topped with a thick dark 'agal (head rope), a waistcoat over his thobe (ankle length shirt) and has a silver embossed dagger (khanjar) at his waist. This image was taken during Wilfred Thesiger's week and a half long sailing trip

A dhow (sailboat) is visible just behind the near boat

a 'well constructed church is prosperously maintained here with a resident Padre and his assistants

the rest of Wilfred Thesiger's party ride camels across sands

View of a street in Saiwun

a settlement comprising several households in the same enclosure

with two Nile perch caught by him and Nuer porters

Beside the launch a house with two wind towers (barjeel) sits along the creek

Portrait of a thirty-seven-year-old Japanese man named Nishi Kichijūrō

The two women standing are wearing burqa (face masks worn by married women)

Group portrait of Wilfred Thesiger (second from right)

He wears a patterned ghutra (headscarf) tied around his head and draped down over the back of his neck and a plain light thobe (long shirt)

a type of dhow) sailing up the Persian Gulf