Seated portrait of Mahalhal bin ... MiscellaneousSeated portrait of Mahalhal bin 'Ati and Sahail bin Tahi, two of Wilfred Thesiger's Bedouin guides, in camp in the Wadi al 'Ayn. On the left Sahail bin Tahi, a tribesman of the Mudairiba lineage of Rashid Bedouin, sits in profile holding a few lengths of cord in his hands. On the right Mahalhal bin 'Ati, a tribesman of the Al Khamis lineage of Awamir Bedouin, sits facing forward holding a needle and thread. In front of them Omani style camel saddles
The man has a thick dark beard and wears a dark coloured thobe (shirt) and a headscarf tied with an 'agal (head rope)
View of a large building decorated with paint in the city of Shibam
Further behind a number of booms and dhows are moored in the water
He wears a thobe (long shirt) and ghutra (headscarf)
On the left ruined walls surround a fort with a large square watchtower
ride camels through an expanse of small dunes bound in by a high dune massif in the left background
or stone used in grinding corn
in camp in the Wadi al 'Ayn
the mother of Hasan bin Manati
A lane in Drepung Monastery with a group of monks gathered in the middle distance
In the far distance at the left a salt flat (sabkha) lies below a high dune massif rising along the horizon
The man is a sheikh of the Bayt Imani lineage of Rashid Bedouin
