Seated portrait of Muhammad, a ... Frame:natural

Seated portrait of Muhammad, a ... Frame:naturalSeated portrait of Muhammad, a sheikh of the Rashid Bedouin, at his encampment in the Ramlat ar Rabbad sands near Bir al Tawil. Muhammad, an elderly man with a long white beard, is kneeling in the sand facing away from the sun. His hands are placed on his thighs, and he looks directly towards the photographer. Wilfred Thesiger and his men stayed with Muhammad, a sheikh of the Rashid Bedouin, and his extended family in the Ramlat ar Rabbad for a few

A man and a woman of the Mahra Bedouin filling a water-skin at Sarif well

and many of the ship's ribs stick out over the boat's hull

Portrait of Muhammad bin Shuas

View of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party crossing a rock-strewn wadi bed in the region north of the town of Al-Saum

in order to prevent sand jamming the mechanism

standing in a line

Portrait of Awad bin Khazai

squatting on a rock

A boy from one of the Qara tribes sits facing forward on a rock ledge

potted plants in background

Portrait of two men (named Moussa Hamma and Muhammad Sirage)

In the central foreground two men carrying rifles stand with their cattle in the midst of a city square