Seated profile portrait of Awad ... ArabiaSeated profile portrait of Awad bin Khazai, a sheikh of the Bayt Imani lineage of Rashid Bedouin and a member of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party, in the region between Wadi Rahnah and Al Maghar well. Awad bin Khazai kneels on the ground facing to the left. He holds a rifle in one hand. 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.
The man on the right holds onto some ropes attached to the mast
View of Wilfred Thesiger's party travelling through the Wadi Qinab during the party's journey to Huliyah well
In the central foreground a few men are using ropes and pulleys to get water from a large well
In the foreground two of the party's camels are couched on the ground
and a thobe (long shirt) topped with a cartridge belt and khanjar (dagger)
On the right a group of men rest in the shade of large tree
Sheikh Hazaa bin Sultan Al Nahyan sits at the far right
Portrait of a young Bedouin man with a camel caravan outside the city of Al Mukalla
and two members of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party walking along a path at the left of the image
protected from flooding by a low earth embankment
thobe (ankle-length shirt) and a suit jacket stands to the right of a large thoroughbred camel with a rough rope halter
In the distance beyond large groups of Bedouin camp in the sands around the well
