Group portrait of four of ... Alfred Maudslay

Group portrait of four of ... Alfred MaudslayGroup portrait of four of Sheikh Shakhbut bin Sultan Al Nahyan's retainers on the Corniche in Abu Dhabi. Two men and two boys kneel in a line in at the Corniche beach in Abu Dhabi. The man on the far left holds a rifle. The boy and the man in the centre both have camel sticks. The young boy at the far right is biting his fingernail. Behind them sailboats (dhows) are moored close to the shore. Due to the nature of these images, prints will reproduce

A middle-aged man with a long dark beard stands in the foreground beside a few couched camels

In the distance beyond date palms grow in the far background

was appointed to attend on Sir Charles Bell's Mission during their stay in Lhasa

made from date palm fronds

View of a palm tree

At the far right a fourth man is taking the saddle off a couched camel

A tightly packed cluster of tall

and looks down towards the ground

View of Wilfred Thesiger's party travelling from Khawr bin 'Atarit well in the Ghanim Sands to the Ramlat al Ghafah

Some camels nibble the branches

A teenage boy stands to the left of his donkey in front of a high house wall

Sertreng ceremony