Seated portrait of a tribesman ... Frame:white

Seated portrait of a tribesman ... Frame:whiteSeated portrait of a tribesman of the Wahiba Bedouin taken at Furai well in the Sharqiyah Sands. 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.

At the far left a young boy holding a camel stick stands next to a man holding holding the head rope of a thoroughbred Batina camel (centre right)

which was the first well Wilfred Thesiger encountered after crossing the 'Uruq ash Shaybah

In the distance a small

while the man on the far right is likely Wilfred Thesiger's Omani bodyguard

In the background vegetation grows on a sand dune

Further back a crowd of people gathers in front of a large stone or coral building fronted with a large canopy covered with palm fronds

a sheikh of the Musaifar lineage of Rashid Bedouin (centre left)

All the men wear thobes (long shirts) and headscarves (ghutra)

Sheikh Hazaa bin Sultan Al Nahyan stands on the deck of a sailboat

Muhammad and his sons hosted Wilfred Thesiger's party at his encampment for a number of days in December 1946 during Wilfred Thesiger's first crossing of the Empty Quarter (Rub' al Khali)

In the distance one and two storey buildings with wind towers (barjeel) line the far bank of the creek

a Yazidi elder