Portrait of a Bedouin man ... Type:unstretched canvas

Portrait of a Bedouin man ... Type:unstretched canvasPortrait of a Bedouin man, a member of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party, in the lower Wadi 'Aydim. 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.

The houses are built from adobe bricks topped with parallel lines of raqf (slate) tiles

The man is sitting on the ground

Dhows are on the water

a sheikh of the Musaifar lineage of Rashid Bedouin

In the nearer foreground a second pair of sailors holds another wooden oar

View of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party watering camels at Al Maghar well

In the far left background

Portrait of a group of Wahiba Bedouin tribesmen relaxing on a sandy plain in the Wadi Halfayn

stands in soft sand in the foreground holding a peregrine falcon

Behind the men a few shrubs can be seen in the far distance

View of one of Wilfred Thesiger's Bedouin companions in the Empty Quarter (Rub' al Khali) in the region between Khaur Sabkha well and Khaba well

The dune has many horizontal ridges