Portrait of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling ... Type:unstretched canvasPortrait of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party gathering water from a well at the southern end of Jabal Hafit (Jebel Hafeet). In the foreground four men stand in a well that is lined with sticks and tree branches. Two of the men are passing bags of water towards the right foreground. Behind the well three members of the party pour out water for a pair of waiting camels. Due to the nature of these images, prints will reproduce any signs of age, wear
The man wears a khanjar (dagger) on a cartridge belt over his thobe (shirt) and a tied ghutra (headscarf)
In the foreground a desiccated bush lies in pieces on the side of the dune
View of the Sultan Al Kathiri Palace in the city of Seiyun
In the right foreground a number of men haul water from a well opening that has been reinforced with concrete or rammed earth
wearing traditional dress of kimono with mon (family emblem)
View of chortens at the monastery at Hemis
View of a member of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party in the Ramlat ar Rabbad sands
He wears a ghutra (headscarf) with a head rope and a thobe (long shirt) topped with a belt and a khanjar (dagger)
Portrait of two teenage boys of the Bayt Zabnawt lineage of Mahra Bedouin at a well in Wadi Shalhamit
a number of men and saddled camels mill about on a flat plain
A house made from adobe topped with parallel lines of raqf (slate) tiles sits in the right foreground
while the two men ahead of him lead their camels on foot
