Portrait of a Qahtan prisoner ... Images of Wilfred Thesiger

Portrait of a Qahtan prisoner ... Images of Wilfred ThesigerPortrait of a Qahtan prisoner with shackles on his feet at Jallat al Mawt in Wadi Dab'ah. 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.

At the centre two men stand on the lee side of the low dune

including stewed peaches

playing a silver church drum which he wears over shoulder

The boy is likely from the local 'Amara tribe

and leans heavily on the camel stick in his left hand

In the distance beyond the men

Portrait of a young man of the Bani Malik at the Suq as Sabt [Saturday market] in the Bani Malik Mountains

Camels in the background

He wears a light coloured thobe (long shirt) with a square patterned ghutra (headscarf) tied around his head

Sahail bin Tahi

In the bushes behind them cooking pots and plates dry in the sun

In the foreground members of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party