Half length seated portrait of ... Jacques-Philippe PotteauHalf length seated portrait of a tribesman of the Wahiba Bedouin, one of Wilfred Thesiger's guides, in the Wadi Halfayn. The man has a thick dark beard and wears a dark coloured thobe (shirt) and a headscarf tied with an 'agal (head rope). 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 a man and three boys sit together in a line
The building is framed in the right diagonal of the image
In the far background the ocean spreads out flat and calm to the far horizon
watering their camels at Habarut wells
In the distance Wilfred Thesiger's party rests in the shade of two trees during the party's journey from Wadi al 'Ayn to the Ramlat al Ghirbaniyat (Ghirbaniyat Sands)
towers high above the 'arish compound
In the background large bushes grow across a vast flat plain
View of men unloading dhows (sailboats) on the Corniche in the town of Abu Dhabi
the other riding a laden donkey
In the background two wind towers (barjeel) sit atop a two storey house behind the fort
Portrait of a man holding a stick standing in a crowd of people at the Suq al Khamis [Thursday market] in the town of Najran
Behind them a vast bare rocky plain continues into the far distance
