Portrait of Rai al Raqiqa ... Thesiger Collection

Portrait of Rai al Raqiqa ... Thesiger CollectionPortrait of Rai al Raqiqa, a member of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party, riding a camel in the Jiddat al Harasis during the party's journey from Boi well to Yisub well. Rai al Raqiqa is a tribesman of the Bayt Kathir Bedouin. 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 has a thick curly beard and wears a coloured thobe (long shirt) and an embroidered ghutra (headscarf)

holding a cooking pot

Portrait of four boys at Baydayn village in Wadi Hali

Portrait of a middle-aged man of the Bin Maaruf lineage of Sa'ar Bedouin in the Raydat as Say'ar

a shepherd

The man wears a thobe (shirt) and a patterned headscarf topped with an 'agal (head rope)

On the right curved crests of low sand dunes run in undulating waves of dunes from the near foreground into the far horizon

He is wearing a patterned izaar (wraparound skirt)

View of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party riding below a rock escarpment near Mudayy

The British Mission football team

A falcon perches on the mangalah (cuff) covering the man's arm

Two men drink at the far end of the trough