Portrait of a man of ... Frame:goldPortrait of a man of the Rashid Bedouin (left), a man of the Mahra Bedouin (right) and a man of the Manahil Bedouin (sitting) in the region between Ghayl bin Yumayn and Wadi 'Arf. 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.
View of a member of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party in the Dhafara sands in the Empty Quarter (Rub' al Khali)
A man wearing a plain thobe (shirt) and an embroidered headscarf topped with an 'agal (head rope) sits facing forward
stands nearby on the right
In the background another man leans on the yard
In the background two storey buildings fronted with wooden canopies line the square
In the near distance a tuft of vegetation grows in the midst of an otherwise bare plain of sand
a tributary of the Euphrates
the 'brush-like comb used combines two articles in one
and his extended family in the Ramlat ar Rabbad for a few days during their first crossing of the Empty Quarter (Rub' al Khali) in December 1946
The two men stand on either side of the boy in front of a stone wall
View of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party resting in camp in Al Humrah sands during their journey to Umm az Zumul
In the background two wind towers (barjeel) sit atop a two storey house behind the fort
