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Portrait of a man of ... Frame:goldPortrait of a man of the Rashid Bedouin (left), a man of the Mahra Bedouin (right) and a man of the Manahil Bedouin (sitting) in the region between Ghayl bin Yumayn and Wadi 'Arf. 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.

View of a member of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party in the Dhafara sands in the Empty Quarter (Rub' al Khali)

A man wearing a plain thobe (shirt) and an embroidered headscarf topped with an 'agal (head rope) sits facing forward

stands nearby on the right

In the background another man leans on the yard

In the background two storey buildings fronted with wooden canopies line the square

In the near distance a tuft of vegetation grows in the midst of an otherwise bare plain of sand

a tributary of the Euphrates

the 'brush-like comb used combines two articles in one

and his extended family in the Ramlat ar Rabbad for a few days during their first crossing of the Empty Quarter (Rub' al Khali) in December 1946

The two men stand on either side of the boy in front of a stone wall

View of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party resting in camp in Al Humrah sands during their journey to Umm az Zumul

In the background two wind towers (barjeel) sit atop a two storey house behind the fort