Man smoking a water-pipe Images of Wilfred Thesiger

Man smoking a water-pipe Images of Wilfred ThesigerPortrait of a young man, sitting on a chair, wearing a plaited conical hat (typical of the Tihama region of Yemen), smoking a water pipe. 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 dhow sails directly into the foreground

Salih and Raikan accompanied Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party from Al Ain to Al Dhafra sands

left) and Brian Thesiger (seated)

In the central foreground a low ridge is marked by a large

used for building houses

He wears a ghutra (headscarf) wrapped closely around his head and a khanjar (dagger) on a cartridge belt over his coloured thobe (long shirt)

Wilfred Thesiger stands at the centre (third from left) holding a camel stick

looking into the near distance

His saddled camel stands on the left

with houses in the distance

wearing wigs

holding knives