Portrait of a little boy ... Frame:natural

Portrait of a little boy ... Frame:naturalPortrait of a little boy, one of the three children of Nura, sitting on the ground at Mudday. Wilfred Thesiger first met Nura and her three children, Munzuk [Murzuk], Erzek and Merzik, a Bayt Kathir Bedouin family at Habarut wells in January 1946. 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.

He wears a plain ghutra (headscarf) topped with a dark 'agal (head rope) and a light coloured thobe (long shirt)

a camel stick and a pot

Five men kneel in a semicircle around a cooking pot and two ceramic cups

taken shortly after his circumcision

The shaven head hair styles are very youthful and would have been a fashion in the period for young women

View of tents at an encampment in the Qandil range of mountains

in his encampment in the Ramlat ar Rabbad sands near Bir al Tawil

and an embroidered headscarf that partially blocks his face from view

On the left a Manasir man with a thick beard and buckteeth crouches beside two members of Wilfred Thesiger's party

the Regent of Abyssinia (and later the Emperor Haile Selassie)

Half length portrait of a Bedouin

View of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party in the Uruq az Zayza sands in the Empty Quarter (Rub' al Khali)