Sheikh Salim bin Tamtaim Type:unstretched canvas

Sheikh Salim bin Tamtaim Type:unstretched canvasPortrait of Sheikh Salim bin Tamtaim of the Beit Kathir tribe, sitting. 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.

a thobe (long shirt) and a wraparound skirt

A "Hermit's band" or gomtak is placed over his right shoulder

wearing a dagger in scabbard across his waist

where Wilfred Thesiger was born on 3 June 1910

as seen from the dzong or fort

In the distance beyond one and two storey buildings in the city of Abha sit close together

In the distance groves of palm trees grow in the wadi behind the city

Two large dhows (sailboats) are beached in watery sand at the centre of the creek

opposite the buildings

A group of monks

View of the Wadi Umm al Hait ('Mother of Life') after twenty-five years of unbroken drought

It is dotted with small tufts of vegetation