View of Wilfred Thesiger's party ... Frame:none

View of Wilfred Thesiger's party ... Frame:noneView of Wilfred Thesiger's party resting in the shade of a tree in the upper Wadi al Batha' east of Qabil al Bu Said village. 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.

for his camels

Opposite him a tribesman of the Wahiba Bedouin

Profile portrait of a tribesman of the Manasir Bedouin

In the right foreground a small tree grows on a wind-rippled dune

In the foreground at the far right a man sits on deck

Wilfred Thesiger wears a cartridge belt on leather suspenders over his white thobe (shirt) and a plain headscarf topped with an 'agal (head rope)

Wilfred Thesiger stands at the centre

View of tall houses at Shibam in the Hadhramaut

and in the distance a vast white sabkha (salt flat) lies beyond the downs on the right

described by Wilfred Thesiger as 'one of [his] favourite compositions'

On the left a little boy stands beside a stone building

All three men are tribesmen of the Bayt Imani lineage of Rashid Bedouin