Portrait of two members of ... Type:art print

Portrait of two members of ... Type:art printPortrait of two members of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party eating a meal during the party's journey from Ramlat al Ghirbaniyat to Furai well. Salim bin Kabina, a tribesman of the Bayt Imani lineage of Rashid Bedouin, sits on the left, looking down into the near foreground. Mahalhal bin 'Ati, a tribesman of the Al Khamis lineage of Awamir Bedouin, sits on the right. Each man wears a light coloured thobe (shirt) and a dark coloured ghutra

and strings of pearls

In the background a steep rock outcrop juts above the plain

Al Shada Palace is visible in the background

In the foreground a dry tree grows in an area of even sand

View of a group of women sitting in front of the stone building at Suq al Sabt market below Jabal Mana'

He holds a rifle in both hands

Two more pots and a coffeepot stand on the ground

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

accompanied Wilfred Thesiger on his 1946 journey through the Hejaz region

making coffee in the sands near Al Ain

wearing the goatskin and ostrich feather headdress associated with the circumcision ritual

Portrait of three Jewish boys sitting in the entrance to a building