Seated half length portrait of ... Frame:none

Seated half length portrait of ... Frame:noneSeated half length portrait of a boy of the Rashid Bedouin taken by Wilfred Thesiger during his party's journey from Al Ain to Liwa oasis, likely in the region of Al Humrah sands. The boy is likely Raikan, the son of Salih. He sits in camp wearing a plain ghutra (headscarf) tied around ear length curly hair and a light coloured thobe (long shirt). Behind him blankets and supplies sit in the sand. Salih and Raikan accompanied Wilfred Thesiger's

being paddled by three young men

Full length portrait of a man and a young boy standing at the side of a river in the region between the cities of Sabya and Jizan

pictured here a few days before their circumcision

Further out many boats are moored close to shore in shallow water

Each man wears a light coloured thobe (shirt) and an embroidered headscarf

View of tents at an encampment in the Qandil range of mountains

On his head he wears a dark patterned ghutra (headscarf) tied over a light taqiyah cap

Wilfred Thesiger kneels in the sand in front of a low ridge of bushes

View of a village in Al Ain oasis

View of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party resting at Mughshin Oasis

Wilfred Thesiger and Salim bin Kabina

In the foreground six men stand around a dead camel