Group portrait of Wilfred Thesiger's ... John K. Hillers

Group portrait of Wilfred Thesiger's ... John K. HillersGroup portrait of Wilfred Thesiger's Bedouin party riding camels in a line across a flat plain during their journey from Wadi Qinab to Huliyah well. 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 background behind them men and camels mill about

walking at the head of a line of camels

Portrait of a man at the market at Umm Al Khashab

and in the distance low rolling dunes stretch out across the horizon

It is eating the hare

The man is wearing his dagger (jambiya or khanjar) in a horizontal manner in the style typical of this region

holding on to a rope attached to Hamad's water bag

Behind the watchtower

On the right two camels wait beside a group of men pulling water from the well

Behind them a third member of the party follows

On the left a man crouches on the ground with his rifle

Bags are lying in front of the pot