Half length seated portrait of ... Special Orders

Half length seated portrait of ... Special OrdersHalf length seated portrait of a tribesman of the Habab in the Al Ain Buraimi oasis. A tribesman of the Habab kneels in the sand with one hand on his thigh. Over his light coloured thobe (long shirt) he wears a cartridge belt with suspenders and a silver embossed khanjar (dagger). He also wears a long ghutra (headscarf) hanging loosely around his head and shoulders, which is topped with a thick dark 'agal (head rope). In the background trees grow in

with its head looking back over its shoulder

A shrine with a cloth canopy sits in the middle of a street

Wooden grates and bars cover the buildings' windows

Some bushes grow behind the men

Two Bedouin tribesmen stand on the left in front of a trilith

Shopping is done by boat

people bring him food

In the far distance beyond vast rolling dunes spreads out below a far rocky mountain

a man waits on the crest of the dune with his camels

He wears a khanjar (dagger) on a cartridge belt over his thobe (shirt) and a large headscarf

In the central distance a Manasir tent clad in striped woven blankets has been erected alongside a stand of trees and bushes in a wide expanse of sand dotted with vegetation

standing with some of his retainers