Seated portrait of Mahalhal bin ... Frame:natural

Seated portrait of Mahalhal bin ... Frame:naturalSeated portrait of Mahalhal bin 'Ati, one of Wilfred Thesiger's Bedouin guides, eating a meal during the party's journey from Ramlat al Ghirbaniyat to Furai well. Mahalhal bin 'Ati, a tribesman of the Al Khamis lineage of Awamir Bedouin, sits in the foreground. He wears a light coloured thobe (shirt) and a dark coloured ghutra (headscarf). In the background a man stands on the left (partially cut out of the frame), while in the far distance lies a

In the far background a herd of camels rests on the plain behind them

In the distance tall builds sit along the foot of a high rock escarpment

In the background number of people walk along a market thoroughfare

In the far background trees grow below a rock outcrop

The man on the far right wears a waistcoat over his thobe (ankle-length shirt) under his a ceremonial bisht (robe)

the home of King Abdul Aziz [Ibn Saud]

a young Samburu man wearing a black skin cloak and tufted hair style

Close up profile portrait of a thoroughbred (female) Wahiba camel

towards a second man standing on the top of the dune in the central distance

In the left distance beyond

At the left Mabkhaut bin Arbain

In the distance beyond the flat two groups of 'arish huts