Seated profile portrait of Alaiwa ... Size:largeSeated profile portrait of Alaiwa bin Lutaiya, a guide in Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party, taken during the party's journey from Ramlat al Ghirbaniyat to Furai well. Alaiwa bin Lutaiya, a tribesman of the Marakhin lineage of Duru Bedouin, sits facing to the left, with his hands folded in his lap. He wears a striped ghutra (headscarf) and a light coloured thobe (shirt). In the background vegetation grows in flat sand. Due to the nature of these
Portrait of a young man from the Humaydah tribe with two boys in the region between Suq ath Thulutha and Wadi Hali
View of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party watering their camels at Dhiby well in the Empty Quarter (Rub' al Khali)
The two men at the back of the line both carry falcons
a tribesman of the Bayt Mbarik lineage of Rashid Bedouin and one of Wilfred Thesiger's Bedouin companions
ride camels through an expanse of small dunes bound in by a high dune massif in the left background
Further beyond
795 in the standard Western (Gregorian) calendar
in thick vegetation in Bandhavgarh National Park
with several people including Falih bin Jasim
with herds of goats and cattle in the foreground
Chief Laduma saluting with his men behind
Four Bedouin men stand around a well opening made of concrete or rammed earth
