Portrait of Mahra Bedouin watering ... Iraq

Portrait of Mahra Bedouin watering ... IraqPortrait of Mahra Bedouin watering their camels at Habarut 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.

a stray camel stands in the midst of the sands

in the Tibesti range of mountains

View of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party resting in the Jaub depression in desert of the Empty Quarter (Rub' al Khali)

View of Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan's hawking party in Al Khatam sands near Jebel Hafeet (Jabal Hafit)

kneels in the centre

In the background people

Below him on the right a second boy wearing a cap and shirt leans on the platform

He has a full beard and has his thobe tucked into his wraparound skirt

Children are playing in the square

Each man leads a tethered baggage camel behind their own mount

View of people at a suq (market) in the city of Ad Dali'

It the far right distance a high mountain rises above the horizon