Portrait of a little boy ... Frame:natural

Portrait of a little boy ... Frame:naturalPortrait of a little boy of the Bayt Kathir Bedouin taken in the Wadi 'Aydim region between Mudayy and Harbarut. The boy is eating a coconut. Wilfred Thesiger met this boy and his two brothers (named Munzuk [Murzuk], Erzek, and Merzik) and their mother, Nura, in the Wadi 'Aydim region near Mudayy. 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.

wearing a felt hat and a sheepskin jacket

while above them a large white sail flies from a mast

and beyond that a vast salt flat (sabkha) dotted with vegetation

The Potala and steps leading up to the southern face

with a man standing outside it

In the foreground large trees grow on a flat plain

View of Wilfred Thesiger's party packing camels during their journey through the Jol from Fughmah to Ghayl bin Yamayn

crouches in the right foreground

He also wears a patterned ghutra (headscarf) hanging loosely around his head and shoulders

in his encampment in the Ramlat ar Rabbad sands near Bir al Tawil

View of two camels walking amongst tall clusters of vegetation growing on a flat sand in the Wadi Aswad

Group portrait of men from the Bin Maaruf lineage of Sa'ar Bedouin sitting on the ground at Manwakh well