Group portrait of two members ... Africa 2

Group portrait of two members ... Africa 2Group portrait of two members of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party resting in camp in the Wadi Thu'ayt. Two of Wilfred Thesiger's Bayt Kathir Bedouin guides sit in the sand. The man on the left is killing lice. In the background a stand of bushes grows in the sand. 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.

Portrait of a man of the Rashid Bedouin with his two young boys in the region between Ayun pool and Mudayy

In the distance beyond traders and shoppers relax with their camels in a large sandy area

View of the Nile paddle-steamer Kereri

In the foreground a few bushes grow in the sand

In the village a number of square flat-roofed houses built of stone sit at the foot of a pointed rock outcrop

Mahra Bedouin of the Bayt Zabnawt lineage with their camels at Habarut [Habrut]

Five men sit in the sand next to a large bush

Further along in the Shindagha district

A long narrow flag flies from a post at the back of the awning

west of Sarif wells

A number of men crouch on the deck and gunwales of a small dhow crossing a flat and calm Dubai Creek

a sheikh of the Musaifar lineage of Rashid Bedouin)