View of a lone bare ... Type:unstretched canvas

View of a lone bare ... Type:unstretched canvasView of a lone bare tree at the bottom of a high dune in the 'Uruq ash Shaybah sands in the Empty Quarter (Rub' al Khali). The 'Uruq ash Shaybah dunes are some of the highest dunes in the Empty Quarter (Rub' al Khali). 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.

two of whom are standing

A third man squats at the edge of the well

a sheikh of the Bin Maaruf nomads (of Hatim section of the Saar tribe)

rest in the sun

over his thobe (long shirt)

The man wears a light coloured thobe (shirt) and leans on a camel stick

Portrait of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party eating dinner in the Ramlat ar Rabbad sands

and wearing a lion's mane headdress

Carpet on floor

The rock escarpment runs from the far right into the centre distance

In the foreground a young boy in a light-coloured waistcoat and thobe (long shirt) stands on the right

a stiff black mask