Portrait of an Bedouin falconer ... Alfred Maudslay

Portrait of an Bedouin falconer ... Alfred MaudslayPortrait of an Bedouin falconer, a member of Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan's hunting party, in Al Khatam sands near Al Ain. A young Bedouin man with a short moustache bends over a rolled cloth lying at his feet in the foreground. He wears a light coloured thobe (long shirt) and a patterned ghutra (headscarf) tied around his head with an 'agal (head rope). Behind him a vast flat plain dotted with few scattered clumps of vegetation runs into the far

The falcon wears a hood decorated with a few long strips of leather

People at the market in Bati

Tsendron Kusho (centre)

He is wearing a thobe (long shirt) topped with a cartridge belt and has his ghutra (headscarf) wrapped closely around his head and face

Interior of King's compound burnt during fire in the seige of Benin City

people bring him food

On the right Musallim bin Al Kamam

At the centre two camels walk along the crest of a small sand dune

with bundles of reeds lying on the ground

View of a herd of cattle standing in front of Shehara cattle camp on the Jarbayb Plain

a young Asaimara chief who was killed by warriors of the rival Adoimara Danakil tribe a few days after this photograph was taken

In the left foreground a bare bush sticks out of the sand