Half-length seated portrait of one ...

Half-length seated portrait of one ...Half length seated portrait of one of Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan's Bedouin retainers in Al Ain. The man is seated with a rifle leaning against his right shoulder. He wears a thobe (long shirt), a headscarf (ghutra) topped with thin black aghal (head ropes), and has a khanjar (dagger) tucked into his cartridge belt. Behind the man is a flat plain of rocky sand, almost bare of vegetation. This image was taken during April 6 30, 1948, when Wilfred

Half-length seated portrait of one of Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan's Bedouin retainers in Al Ain. The man is seated with a rifle leaning against his right shoulder. He wears a thobe (long shirt), a headscarf (ghutra) topped with thin black aghal (head ropes), and has a khanjar (dagger) tucked into his cartridge belt. Behind the man is a flat plain of rocky sand, almost bare of vegetation. This image was taken during April 6-30, 1948, when Wilfred Thesiger stayed at Al Muwaiji fort in Al Ain as a guest of Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan.

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