Seated portrait of Salim bin ... Afghanistan

Seated portrait of Salim bin ... AfghanistanSeated portrait of Salim bin Kabina, one of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling companions, resting on a rock face near Jebel Hafeet (Jabal Hafit) mountain. Salim bin Kabina, a tribesman of the Bayt Imani lineage of the Rashid Bedouin, sits on a rock face holding a rifle. He is tugging at the izaar (wraparound skirt) he wears under his thobe (long shirt). Salim bin Kabina also wears a cartridge belt over his thobe and a ghutra (headscarf). Wilfred Thesiger

He has a pair of black socks slung over his shoulder and a camel stick in his hand

Half length portrait of a Bedouin man at the city of Al Mukalla

while he looks directly into the central foreground

View of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party resting in the Sharqiyah Sands during the party's journey from Tawi Harian well to Batha' Badiyah

Next to Salim bin Kabina (second from the right) is Muhammad al Auf

Profile portrait of a boy of the Sa'ar Bedouin sitting on the ground in the Raydat as Say'ar

wearing Arab dress

View of a line of people gathered outside the rock-hewn church of Imrahanna Krestos at Imraha

holding a needle and thread in his hands

standing on rocks

View of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party in the Al Batin sands during their journey across the Empty Quarter (Rub' al Khali) from Al Dhafra sands to Liwa oasis

Tufts of vegetation and small shrubs grow on the uneven ground