View of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling ... Frame:natural

View of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling ... Frame:naturalView of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party near Baiman during their journey from the city of Abha to the village of 'Ar'arah. On the right Wilfred Thesiger's travelling companions are watering the party's donkeys at a shallow creek. Behind them trees and grasses grow across a rocky hillside. 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.

In the foreground traders stand with their goats in front of a circular house with a domed straw roof

In the background a steep rock outcrop juts above the plain

A falconer in a light coloured thobe (long shirt) topped with a cartridge belt holds a peregrine falcon on a mangalah (cuff) on one arm

kneels atop the camel

Behind them a few animals wait by the well

with people gathered on the street in the foreground

a tribesman of the Bayt Gidad lineage of Bayt Kathir Bedouin and one of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling companions

resting his arm on his knee and holding a camel stick

standing with Wilfred Thesiger's camel in the Al Dhafra sands during the party's journey to Baynunah

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The sand dune on which the camel stands is ridged with small

Side view of kotias