Group portrait of Wilfred Thesiger ... Alfred Maudslay

Group portrait of Wilfred Thesiger ... Alfred MaudslayGroup portrait of Wilfred Thesiger with three men of his party at the village of Ghayl bin Yumayn. Wilfred Thesiger (front left) crouches beside Muhammad Al Auf (front right), a tribesman of the Bayt Mbarik lineage of Rashid Bedouin. At the back right stands Salim bin Kabina, a young tribesman of the Bayt Imani lineage of Rashid Bedouin, with another man on the left. Behind the men the rest of the party is sitting, and assorted camping equipment can

fights with a MacQueen's Bustard on the ground

Baggage camels follow behind the men's mounts on leads

The ferries

better known as Pedro Jose Quivera)

In the background a two storey building fronted with a wooden canopy borders the square

In the foreground a rowboat sits in wind-rippled water in front of a group of dhows

In the far background a few trees grow in the far distance

A group of people stand on the left beside one of the huts

Portrait of a member of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party standing beside a line of trilith monuments

He has a trimmed dark beard and holds a rifle

faces forward

A boy wearing a light coloured thobe (shirt) and a ghutra (headscarf) leans on his elbows on the gunwale of a small wooden boat beached on the shore