Seated portrait of a young ... Africa 2

Seated portrait of a young ... Africa 2Seated portrait of a young tribesman of the Manasir Bedouin, whom Wilfred Thesiger met at a Manasir encampment in the Baynunah sands. A teenaged boy of the Manasir Bedouin crouches in the sand in front of a thick growth of vegetation. He leans on his knee with one arm. He wears a plain ghutra (headscarf) draped over his head and around his shoulders and a light coloured thobe (long shirt). Behind him a blanket lies next to some thick vegetation

with rocky ground in the foreground

View of boats

on which many flies sit

a sheikh of the Musaifar lineage of Rashid Bedouin (centre left)

View of tall buildings in the town of Al-Saum

Thesiger records

On the far left a fourth member of the party crouches on the stoney ground

In the foreground a wide road leads into the city of Abha

The men sit beside a rock strewn hillside

crouching on rocks

the carving is now understood by scholars to represent a supernatural crocodilian

Portrait of a group of boys in Baydayn village in Wadi Hali