Mahra Bedouin filling water skins ... Frame:black

Mahra Bedouin filling water skins ... Frame:blackMahra Bedouin filling water skins at the Sarif wells. 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.

Most of the men hold rifles

View of two Bedouin men in Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party watering camels at Yisub well

possibly from Iran

sitting in the region between Jabal Baydan and At Taif

View of bushes and a palm tree in the landscape surrounding the village of Baydayn in the Wadi Hali

looking out across the horizon

Close up portrait of a middle-aged Arab man

Boys of the Mahra Bedouin in the Wadi al Jiz' near its junction with Wadi Mahrat

and other buildings line the creek

In the central distance the square stone Shindagha watchtower rises high above nearby buildings

The boy is slightly bent over from the weight of the rope in his hand

In the further distance one of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling companions