Seated portrait of Salim bin ...

Seated portrait of Salim bin ...Seated portrait of Salim bin Ghabaisha, one of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling companions, riding a camel during the party's journey from Jabal Sumeini to the port city of Sharjah. Salim bin Ghabaisha, a tribesman of the Bayt Imani lineage of Rashid Bedouin, kneels in the saddle of his camel [most of the camel's body is outside the frame]. He looks down at the ground below his camel. Salim bin Ghabaisha wears a cartridge belt with leather suspenders

Seated portrait of Salim bin Ghabaisha, one of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling companions, riding a camel during the party's journey from Jabal Sumeini to the port city of Sharjah. Salim bin Ghabaisha, a tribesman of the Bayt Imani lineage of Rashid Bedouin, kneels in the saddle of his camel [most of the camel's body is outside the frame]. He looks down at the ground below his camel. Salim bin Ghabaisha wears a cartridge belt with leather suspenders over his thobe (long shirt) and has a ghutra (headscarf) wrapped around his head. In his right hand he holds a camel stick. In the background a few bushes grow in sandy soil.

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