Wilfred Thesiger's party during their ... Type:stretched canvas

Wilfred Thesiger's party during their ... Type:stretched canvasWilfred Thesiger's party during their journey from the Wadi Kidyut to Shib Waqtaat. 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.

The young man on the right is holding a sword and wearing a bundle of herbs in his hair

showing the rooftops and courtyards of the buildings

Beyond the escarpment at the far right is a plain dotted with sparse vegetation

In the background vegetation grows in flat sand

His cockscomb haircut shows that he has not yet be circumcised

a waistcoat and cartridge belt with silver studded leather suspenders over his thobe (long shirt)

one of Wilfred Thesiger's Hejaz guides at the settlement of Badr

At the far left another camel grazes on a large bush

Behind it many more dhows are moored or beached in front of the Shindagha district

Half length seated portrait of an elder tribesman of the Wahiba Bedouin in the Wadi Halfayn

In the foreground piles of gear and blankets lie in the sand in front of him

Seated portrait of one of Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan's falconers holding a falcon at Al Muwaiji Fort