Portrait of three members of ... Type:stretched canvas

Portrait of three members of ... Type:stretched canvasPortrait of three members of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party men butchering a camel in the Shi'b al Raqq near the Haij well. In the foreground three men stand around a dead camel. On the left an elderly man carves into the hump of the camel with his khanjar (dagger), while a young man watches on the right. Sahail bin Tahi, a tribesman of the Mudairiba lineage of Rashid Bedouin, stands in the background wearing a loincloth and holding a khanjar.

In the distance beyond the sea stretches out empty and uninterrupted to the far horizon

Tibetan silversmith in Lhasa engraving a charm box

Tibetan foot soldier

The man sits in profile on a camel to the left of the tumulus burial mound

and a few tufts of sedge grow

View of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party resting among ghaf [Prosopis cineraria] trees at Mughshin Oasis

holding a young child

On the far right one of Wilfred Thesiger's Bedouin or Arab guides walks along a dune

Chapkpori reflected in the waters of the Kyichu river

Each of the three men wears a thobe (long shirt) and a headscarf (ghutra)

View of a gateway between buildings into the city of Tarim

In the distance beyond a steep ravine cuts through high barren plains