Half length portrait of a ... Tibet

Half length portrait of a ... TibetHalf length portrait of a herds boy of the Rashid Bedouin in the sands near Al Ain. The boy sits in the sand, looking towards the near right. A few flies gather on his head. He wears a plain ghutra (headscarf) tied around his head and neck and a thobe (shirt). 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.

In the far background low rolling dunes stretch across the horizon below a vast cloudless sky

A boy wearing a light coloured thobe (shirt) and a ghutra (headscarf) stands in front of the stern of a beached badan

Another member of the party stands in the background

Blood pools in the rocks beneath the donkey

the rest of the party walks with their camels past a chain of sand dunes

'[t]his class of weaving is done exclusively by the men and the work of preparing sacred blankets is always conducted in an estufa

carrying a cargo of reed mats

View of Wilfred Thesiger's party climbing the crest of a high dune in the Kidan plains (Suhul al Kidan) or Al Batin sands of the Empty Quarter (Rub' al Khali)

A forth member of the party sits in the shade of a tall thorn tree growing on the left

The tribesmen stand in the right foreground on a rock at the edge of a cliff

Large plants

and has a rifle slung over his shoulder