View of a member of ... IraqView of a member of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party standing in the Empty Quarter (Rub' al Khali) during the party's journey from Jaladah plain to Bani Ma'arid sands. In the background dunes continue into the far distance. 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.
'Amair bin 'Omar's face is shaded from the sun by his ghutra (headscarf) which is wrapped closely around his head
leaning one of the wooden poles
Portrait of a young man from the village of Umm al Khashab
Exterior view of the mudhif (guest house) belonging to Hatim bin Mauzan of the Al Juaibar tribe
In the far distance a few dhows can be seen along the horizon
In the background a salt flat (sabkha) sparsely dotted with vegetation covers the far plain
] in the shape of large excavations
At the centre left a Bedouin tribesman (possibly a member of Wilfred Thesiger's party) kneels with his hands in his lap
in which he holds a small branch (used as a camel stick) and the reins of his camel
two pot plants on either side of him
In the central foreground two men carrying rifles stand with their cattle in the midst of a city square
a tribesman of the Bayt Imani lineage of Rashid Bedouin