Standing half length portrait of ... Images of Wilfred Thesiger

Standing half length portrait of ... Images of Wilfred ThesigerStanding half length portrait of the Imam of Oman's representative at the southern end of Jabal Hafit (Jebel Hafeet), near Al Qabil. The Imam of Oman's representative, who accompanied Wilfred Thesiger from 'Izz to Al Muwaiji, stands in the foreground facing forward. He carries a rifle over his shoulder and holds a camel stick. He wears a cartridge belt over his thobe (shirt), a light coloured headscarf and has a long thick grey beard. In the far

View of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party watering their camels at Dhiby well in the Empty Quarter (Rub' al Khali)

View of a gorge in the High Atlas range of mountains

On the left one man squats on the ground

A large group of people gather behind the camels

In the far distance beyond vast rolling dunes spreads out below a far rocky mountain

friendly manner

View of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party at Dhiby well in the Empty Quarter (Rub' al Khali)

and further down the bank a number of 'arish huts and structures made of palm fronds sit alongside the one and two storey buildings lining the shore

its head (covered with a hood) turned towards the left

A man and a boy with a camel beside it

armed with a long pole

while apertures are made in the other for the head and arms