View of an Utaybah Bedouin ... Frame:gold

View of an Utaybah Bedouin ... Frame:goldView of an Utaybah Bedouin family watering their sheep at Al Qaiyah well. In the background a herd of camels stands on the dry flat plain. 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.

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and wears herbs in his hair

Wilfred Thesiger is standing in profile and looks out into the far left distance

Members of Wilfred Thesiger's party rest in the shade beneath large trees growing on either side of a gravelly wadi bed

In the distance beyond two of the party's camels stand where the wadi bed transitions from a covering of sand to small rocks

Low single storey buildings line both sides of the street

one of whom is wearing a waistcoat over his thobe (ankle-length shirt)

surrounded by dense vegetation

In the background blankets and saddles lie in the sand behind him

looking back over his shoulder into the left distance

In the distance beyond low rolling dunes stretch out towards the horizon on the left

On the right more people sit beneath a large canopy attached to a second hut with a pointed roof