Portrait of Muhammad al Auf ... Africa

Portrait of Muhammad al Auf ... AfricaPortrait of Muhammad al Auf, a member of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party, and a tribesman of the Wahiba Bedouin sitting beside a cooking fire in the Wadi Hawshi. Muhammad al Auf, a tribesman of the Bayt Mbarik lineage of Rashid Bedouin, sits on the left. The man of the Wahiba Bedouin sits on the right, next to a pot and other cooking accessories. He is drinking from a small cup. Due to the nature of these images, prints will reproduce any signs of

) his tipping out

View of hilly terrain in southern Ethiopia

An Arab guide in Wilfred Thesiger's party stands in the midst of a vast rocky plant left of a large tree

at an ailoq (herdsmen's summer pasture camp) in the Chamar valley

View a valley

View of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party riding camels across the barren steppes of Jaddat al Harasis

Four men sit in a semicircle beside a cloth tent erected against a low rock wall

View of a crowd of people of the Al bu Muhammad tribe

taken in 1949

with children sitting nearby on the ground

with two members of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party standing on a ledge in the foreground

On the left a man wades through shallow water