Portrait of Musallim bin Al ... Sue Johnson

Portrait of Musallim bin Al ... Sue JohnsonPortrait of Musallim bin Al Kamam and a number of Wahiba Bedouin at Buraymah well in the Wadi Halfayn. In the foreground three men and two women stand at the opening of a well hauling water. The man on the left, wearing a large embroidered headscarf and leather suspenders over his thobe (shirt) is Musallim bin Al Kamam, a sheikh of the Musaifar lineage of Rashid Bedouin and a member of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party. Behind them sheep wait by the

The building is framed in the right diagonal of the image

They each hold a rifle in their right hand and wear a khanjar (dagger) tucked in a cartridge belt over their thobe (long shirt)

watched by several others

In the foreground people rest with a camel around the palm tree

In the far distance beyond the flat low dunes sit along the horizon

kneels in the saddle of his camel [most of the camel's body is outside the frame]

oarsmen wait for passengers beside their abra at the ferry launch

leaning on a blanket

The buildings on the left are topped only with adobe

winnowing grain

View of Wilfred Thesiger's party watering camels at a well during the party's journey from Jabal Buwaydah to the town of Al Qabil

in the grounds of the Dekyi Lingka