Portrait of a young man ... Frame:gold

Portrait of a young man ... Frame:goldPortrait of a young man of the Bani Malik tribe in the Bani Malik Mountains. He is wearing a garland of sweet herbs in his hair. The band shaved through his hair indicates that he has not yet been circumcised. 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.

Behind him on the left a tree casts shade over a palm fence

Portrait of a boy of the Bani Hilal

while on the opposite right side it slopes softly upward

In the far distance directly behind the men a large dune rises

View of a camel belonging to Wilfred Thesiger's party

In the left foreground a man and a boy stand beside coils of rope stacked in bundles on the ground

In the foreground a man in a white thobe (ankle-length shirt) walks across an open sandy area

ride their mounts along the crest of a high dune which surrounds a flat plain

and his long hair hangs down around his shoulders beneath his headscarf

The staff at the side he uses when walking

a coffee-maker

Lamas were often trained in medicine and would be called on to administer medicine and to chant an appropriate religious text