Portrait of a boy of ... Special Orders

Portrait of a boy of ... Special OrdersPortrait of a boy of the Al Thalid tribe in Jabal Dhahran. He is wearing herbs in his hair. 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.

being paddled by three young men

a waistcoat over his T-shirt

Behind him two men sit on the far end of a bow yard

Four of Wilfred Thesiger's Rashid Bedouin companions lead their camels across a wide expanse of sand

A group of Mahra Bedouin at Habarut [Habrut]

View of the wooden house owned by Lawi Leboyare which he and Wilfred Thesiger had built together

Their instruments include drums and something resembling a large pan

View of a couched camel and pack donkeys at Suq al Sabt market below Jabal Mana'

some of which are crowned with wooden scaffolding

in front of them is a water-pipe

In the background a high wall and watchtower sit in front of a grove of date palms

In the far distance the eastern slopes of Jebel Kawr rise high above the hill