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Seated group portrait of five villagers or Bedouin men in the region of Al Ain oasis. Five men holding rifles kneel in the sand in half shade. All the men wear thobes (long shirts) and headscarves (ghutra). At the centre of the group a man wears a khanjar (dagger) on a cartridge belt attached to leather bandoliers over his thobe, and also holds a camel stick. In the far background a few trees grow in the along the horizon. 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.

Due to the nature of these images, prints will reproduce any signs of age, wear or damage that occurred before they were archived by the Pitt Rivers Museum.

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Date	April 6-30, 1948

Seated group portrait of five ...

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