View of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling ... Frame:gold

View of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling ... Frame:goldView of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party riding through the Al Qafa' or As Saruq region north of Liwa oasis. Two members of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party, tribesmen of the Bayt Imani lineage of Rashid Bedouin, ride camels through low, crescent shaped dunes. Each man is followed by a baggage camel which is tethered behind his mount. The sands surrounding the men are mostly bare, aside from a few sparse tufts of vegetation. Due to the nature of

cruciform in shape

with a crowd gathered in the foreground

A man of the Bayt Kathir preparing food at a campsite in the region between Ghayl bin Yumayn and Wadi 'Arf

Two of the men wear thobe (long shirts)

The dress was reported to have cost two thousand rupees

with a cow in the background

squatting on rocks on Mount Hendren

Group portrait of a boy and two toddlers at a suq (market) in the city of Lawdar in Abyan Governorate

Portrait of a boy of the Bayt Kathir Bedouin in Dhofar

Large chopa votive offerings being paraded through a crowd as part of the ceremonies of the 'Offerings of the Fifteenth'

In the left background the shadow of another falcon is cast over the sand

Seated profile portrait of Alaiwa bin Lutaiya