View of the suq (market) ... Thesiger Collection

View of the suq (market) ... Thesiger CollectionView of the suq (market) in the town of Al Hofuf in Al Hasa Oasis. In the distance a crowd of locals and market stalls fill the middle of a street lined with single storey buildings. 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.

and a hut in the distance

Its mouth is slightly open and the tuft of hair on its neck is blown to the left by the wind

Some monks are processing at the bottom of the image

Just beyond the dune's crest rises steeply from the left foreground up towards the right foreground

Further behind one of Wilfred Thesiger's Bedouin companions walks towards a tall tree

dressed in white

who is holding a morsel of food in his right hand

He wears a thobe (shirt) and a headscarf topped with a braided 'agal (head rope)

Behind the men is a large

taken from Chakpori

In the far distance a low ridge of dunes sits at the horizon

In the foreground piles of gear and blankets lie in the sand in front of him