Seated portrait of an elder ... Thesiger Collection

Seated portrait of an elder ... Thesiger CollectionSeated portrait of an elder tribesman of the Wahiba Bedouin in the Wadi Halfayn. The man has a thick beard and wears a light coloured thobe (shirt) topped with a khanjar (dagger) and a headscarf tied with an 'agal (head rope). He holds a rifle in one hand. 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.

He is eating something

In the distance buildings crowd around the foot of a high rock promontory

In the near distance a four men and a young boy (centre left) unload couched camels in the midst of a vast flat plain dotted with scattered clumps of vegetation

View of the crests of sand dunes in the Ramlat as Sahmah

In the foreground people stand in an field

View of a cluster of joined buildings near Baiman in the region between the city of Abha and the village of 'Ar'arah

View of Gyantse showing Kumbum

Portrait of a boy of the Yam Bedouin

a camel stands in the sand

In the foreground a large palm tree casts a shadow over the road

and behind them a steep rock slope rises in the background

View of a member of Wilfred Thesiger's party standing in Al Humrah sands during the party's journey to Umm az Zumul