Portrait of Salim bin Turkia ... Frame:black

Portrait of Salim bin Turkia ... Frame:blackPortrait of Salim bin Turkia, a tribesman of the Bayt Kathir Bedouin and a member of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party, sitting on the ground during the party's journey from Shisr well to Mughshin Oasis. 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 man of the Bayt Kathir preparing food at a campsite in the region between Ghayl bin Yumayn and Wadi 'Arf

Portrait of a elderly tribesman of the Wahiba Bedouin at Wilfred Thesiger's camp in Wadi Hawshi

at the left

On the left one group rests in the gravel below the ravine's slopes of barren rock

View of Utaybah Bedouin hauling water from a well at Al Qaiyah or Ad Dafinah wells

and Santa Ana Mesa visible in the distance on the left

Buildings line either side of the street

Despite a twenty-five year drought

wearing Arab dress

View of a gate in the Jeddah city walls

Two tied bundles of mats sit in the foreground in front of trunks

wearing a headdress and neck ornaments