Seated portrait of Awad bin ... Images of Sheikh Zayed

Seated portrait of Awad bin ... Images of Sheikh ZayedSeated portrait of Awad bin Khazai, a sheikh of the Bayt Imani lineage of Rashid Bedouin and a member of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party, in the region between Wadi Rahnah and Al Maghar well. Awad bin Khazai kneels on the ground facing forward, holding a rifle in one hand. 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.

unloading a camel in a dry wadi

a teenaged boy from the Harb Bedouin tribe of the Wadi al Ahsabah

View of men gathered with camels

His head is loosely covered with a headscarf

They both wear white loincloths and headscarves

behind him his brothers sit on the sandy ground

The party is travelling from Al Ain to Jabal Sumeini

near the Yemen Border

and a tribesman of the Wahiba Bedouin sitting beside a cooking fire in the Wadi Hawshi

View of men on board a dhow

In the far background tufts of qassis (sedge) and other small vegetation grow scattered over rolling sands into the far distance

View of Wilfred Thesiger's party in the Wadi Jarsis in the Jabal Qara mountains