At Umm al Khashab. Portrait ... Special Orders

At Umm al Khashab. Portrait ... Special OrdersAt Umm al Khashab. Portrait of a boy standing beside a well. He is wearing a broad brimmed straw hat. 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 is sitting on the ground with a large pot on the fire

His eyes are darkened by shadows cast by the strong sun

View of Bani Malik tribesmen standing amongst market booths at the Suq as Sabt [Saturday market] in the Bani Malik Mountains

On the left two men sit on a mat on the deck of a dhow

Each man wears a light coloured thobe (shirt) and a dark coloured ghutra (headscarf)

In the foreground a boy with two donkeys

gathered around a dead lion shot by Wilfred Thesiger to spare them from losing further livestock

He also carries a rifle slung under his left arm

at the centre

In the distance beyond scattered dots of vegetation grow amongst rolling dunes

a tribesman of the Bayt Imani lineage of Rashid Bedouin

They are standing around the well