View of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling ... Frame:white

View of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling ... Frame:whiteView of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party trekking in the Al Dhafra sands, north west of Liwa oasis. On the right one of Wilfred Thesiger's Rashid Bedouin companions rides his camel towards a large bush growing in the left foreground. In the distance beyond another member of the party rides across a stretch of sand towards a low sand dune. A few clumps of qassis (sedge) grow on the side of the dune and those beyond it. In the distance the low

The characteristic dotted initiation scars along the youth's forehead are visible reaching across to the ear

At the centre right Musallim bin Al Kamam

View of people from the Bani Malik tribe standing in the shade of a tree at the Suq as Sabt [Saturday market] in the Bani Malik Mountains

Carvings of deities can be seen in the lowest band of carvings and one of Atisha or Tsongkhapa in the bottom left of the image has been carved into the rock face in the round

surrounded by several large piles of reeds and other boats

with mountains rising above it at either side

Portrait of an Arab falconer

He wears a thobe (long shirt) crossed with leather bandoliers attached to a cartridge belt and an embroidered ghutra (headscarf)

Behind him a tree grows

On the left members of Wilfred Thesiger's Bedouin travelling party group around a well

members of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party

wearing a lion's mane headdress