Seated portrait of three Utaybah ... Jacques-Philippe Potteau

Seated portrait of three Utaybah ... Jacques-Philippe PotteauSeated portrait of three Utaybah Bedouin men resting in the sand at one of the Rumah wells. In the background a flock of sheep gathers behind them. 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.

According to James Stevenson's original note for this photograph (prepared circa 1885)

including Thesiger himself (seated)

paddling it forward

View of pieces of wood laid out on the ground

He wears a dark thobe (long shirt) and a plain ghutra (headscarf)

View of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party trekking in the Uruq al Awarik sands of the Empty Quarter (Rub' al Khali)

a square stone and coral fort that has a high round watchtower topped with a flagpole on its near corner

resting on the ground during the party's journey from Shisr well to Mughshin Oasis

View of four children standing in front of a large stone building in the village of Ash Shaykh

View of men standing in front of houses in the city of Dubai

in a boma (village)

The man wears a patterned ghutra (headscarf) and a thobe (long shirt)