Portrait of Awad bin Khazai ... Iran

Portrait of Awad bin Khazai ... IranPortrait of Awad bin Khazai, a sheikh of the Bayt Imani lineage of Rashid Bedouin and a member of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party, with an ibex in the Wadi Kidyut. Awad bin Khazai crouches in gravel beside a dead ibex. He holds the head of the ibex turned towards the foreground. 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.

as evidenced by his blocked nostrils

preparing ochre

At the centre a boy yawns as he holds the head rope of his camel

sits on the ground facing towards the left

In the foreground a vast rocky plain leads to fields and a cluster of buildings in the city of Abha

View of a group of women

The men are tying the sail onto a wooden pole or yard

sits with one arm resting over his knee

Behind the men sky is streaked with a thin haze

Portrait of Salim bin Kabina and another member of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party kneeling in the sand in the Wadi Hawshi

sits facing forward

View of two sailors setting the sails on a dhow (sailboat) in the Persian Gulf near Dubai