Portrait of Salim bin Kabina ... Frame:natural

Portrait of Salim bin Kabina ... Frame:naturalPortrait of Salim bin Kabina, a tribesman of the Bayt Imani lineage of Rashid Bedouin and one of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling companions, kneeling in the sand during the party's journey from Shisr well to Mughshin Oasis. 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.

On the left a stand of trees grows in one of the fields

with several other men standing behind him

Behind them in the distance one member of the party stands halfway up the high dune slope

are found in this region aligned with local watercourses

In the background trees and low vegetation grow on a vast flat plain

Portrait of a elderly tribesman of the Wahiba Bedouin sitting on the ground at Wilfred Thesiger's camp in Wadi Hawshi

A long shelter and a circular hut

In the distance rolling dunes continue into the far horizon below a cloudless sky

in wind-rippled water

Sheikh Mubarak bin Mohammed Al Nahyan stands second from the right

looking towards the near left foreground

Spectators in one of the religious services at the Jokhang temple during the Prayer Festival