Group portrait of Arab men ... Portraits of notable people

Group portrait of Arab men ... Portraits of notable peopleGroup portrait of Arab men and boys assembled for a marriage dance in the Wadi Hali. Many of the participants are wearing garlands of herbs in their hair. On the left a man stands in the midst of the group holding a dagger aloft in the air. 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.

with whom Wilfred Thesiger and his Bedouin companions stayed during their first crossing of the Empty Quarter (Rub' al Khali) in December 1946

and an embroidered headscarf

The cliffs slope across the far distance from high on the left to low at the far right

View of a large boulder sitting in the middle of a rocky valley on Jebel Hafeet [Jabal Hafit] mountain

Portrait of two boys sitting in front of a well in the Al Qatan region

In the foreground dry bushes grow on a rocky flat

In the middle distance Wilfred Thesiger's Bedouin companions trek in a line with their camels along the slope of a large dune

In the far background a vast expanse of rolling sands dotted with vegetation lead into the far distance

View of dunes in Al Batin sands near Liwa oasis in the Empty Quarter (Rub' al Khali)

the governor of Tesuque pueblo

In the background large square stone buildings

View of rocky landscape near the town of Qalat Bishah