Wilfred Thesiger's party watering camels ... Type:stretched canvas

Wilfred Thesiger's party watering camels ... Type:stretched canvasWilfred Thesiger's party watering camels in the Wadi Halfayn. On the left two men stand in a well. Mahalhal bin 'Ati, a tribesman of the Al Khamis lineage of Awamir Bedouin, stands in the well on the left. The second man in the well stands to Mahalhal bin 'Ati's right, and is giving a bowl of water to some camels. Behind them a third man holds a pan of water for some camels standing on the far right. Behind them tall trees and large bushes grow in

In the far background a mountain rises high above the horizon

The man holds a large peregrine falcon on a mangalah (cuff) on one hand

In the foreground one of Wilfred Thesiger's Rashid Bedouin travelling companions (likely Musallim bin Al Kamam

Portrait of a teenaged boy from the Bani Malik tribe in the upper Wadi Damad

Side view of two dhows moored along the shore of Bahrain Island

View of a street

Its mouth is slightly open and its head rope hangs down from its head onto the sand

and when twenty or thirty of them are en route from the pueblo to the harvest fields in the early morning their screeching can be heard for many miles around

a Bedouin man

riding across a sand flat in Al Batin sands during their journey across the Empty Quarter (Rub' al Khali) from Al Dhafra sands to Liwa oasis

View of a kasbah (fortress) at Ahansal in the High Atlas range of mountains

and wears an 'agal (head rope) over a patterned ghutra (headscarf) and a light coloured thobe (shirt)