Seated profile portrait of Salim ... Jacques-Philippe Potteau

Seated profile portrait of Salim ... Jacques-Philippe PotteauSeated profile portrait of Salim bin Kabina, a sixteen or seventeen year old boy of the Bayt Imani lineage of Rashid Bedouin, at a well in the region of Wadi Khawat. This is one of the first portraits Wilfred Thesiger took of Salim bin Kabina. After this meeting Salim bin Kabina joined Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party, and later accompanied Wilfred Thesiger on all his journeys in the Rub' al Khali (Empty Quarter). Due to the nature of these images,

View of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling companions descending a dune slope north of Al Ain during the party's journey from Al Ain to Ramlat Unayq

paddling it forward

Three of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling companions

Interior view of the unfinished mudhif (guest house) belonging to Raudha

Behind the houses sits Al Fahidi fort

Behind the dunes an area of salt flat (sabkha) can be seen beneath a high

Behind him locals stand in the midst of a pack of donkeys carrying heavy loads of wood

and in the far distance there is a line of trees

taken in 1949

He is wearing a patterned izaar (wraparound skirt)

In the right foreground four men stand on a small dhow (sailboat) moored in Dubai Creek

with a member of Thesiger's party walking in snow formations called névés pénitents in the foreground