Portrait of a herds boy ... Size:small

Portrait of a herds boy ... Size:smallPortrait of a herds boy of the Bayt Kathir Bedouin in Dhofar. 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.

The young man on the left is wearing a short sword attached horizontally to his belt

A peregrine falcon stands in a patch of sand

Far behind them a few camels rest on a barren flat plain

View of one of Wilfred Thesiger's Bedouin companions in Al Khatam or Al Humrah sands south of Al Ain

In the 'Uruq ash Shaybah in the Rub' al Khali (Empty Quarter)

and wearing a lion's mane headdress

In the distance behind them a flat plain dotted with small vegetation can be seen in a depression between the surrounding high dunes

and above the sky is clear and cloudless

Wilfred Thesiger's party in the Wadi Madi on the journey to Al Mukalla

Sheikh Tahnoun bin Mohammed Al Nahyan

In the distance square tower houses built of rammed earth sit atop a hill on the right

in the Al Ain / Buraimi oasis