Portrait of Wahiba Bedouin with ... Africa 2

Portrait of Wahiba Bedouin with ... Africa 2Portrait of Wahiba Bedouin with their camels at a well in the Wadi 'Andam. On the left a tribesman of the Wahiba Bedouin, wearing a white wraparound skirt, pours water into a mud trough for his camels. Just behind him a boy stands with the camels. 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 peregrine's beak is open

Railings and spires run along the roof edges of the building

facing towards the far right

In the foreground one of Wilfred Thesiger's Rashid Bedouin travelling companions (likely Musallim bin Al Kamam

an awning is covered with white cloth

View of two members of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party trekking in the Wadi 'Andam

and he looks directly towards the photographer

He wears a khanjar (dagger) on a cartridge belt with leather suspenders over his thobe (shirt) and an embroidered headscarf

Behind them Sheikh Saqr bin Mohammed Al Qasimi's fort sits in the central distance

In the far distance is a vast flat plain marked by lines of sparse vegetation

Behind him a tree grows

Three men kneel in the sand in a line beside a rolled sleeping mattress