Portrait of Salim bin Tamtaim ... Miscellaneous

Portrait of Salim bin Tamtaim ... MiscellaneousPortrait of Salim bin Tamtaim, one of the leaders of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party, riding a camel in the cliffs above Andhur spring. Salim bin Tamtaim, a sheikh of the Bayt Ghuwas lineage of Bayt Kathir Bedouin, sits on a large camel, which is turned towards the left. 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 background behind them men and camels mill about

A child and a woman stand in the foreground

There are flower pots beside him and a display of clocks behind him

In the distance beyond another member of the party rides across a stretch of sand towards a low sand dune

spreads out in the depression behind them

Their quarry

View of a group of women

View of a village in the region north of the city of Ad Dali' in Ad Dali' Governorate

At this time fresh water was imported to Kuwait by boat

Portrait of a young boy kneeling in front of a stone wall at Suq ath Thulutha market

Further along large dhows (sailboats) sit in shallow water and on the beach

which is partially shaded by a few cloth canopies