View of a Bedouin man ... Frame:natural

View of a Bedouin man ... Frame:naturalView of a Bedouin man, a member of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party, standing amongst ghaf trees in the Wadi Samhan. In the foreground a Bedouin man stands on a sand dune beside four ghaf (Prosopis cineraria) trees. In the background a large sand dune rises behind the trees in the far distance. 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.

the stretch of water that separates Abu Dhabi Island from the mainland

The man sitting next to a large barrel holds a small porcelain cup

string waist belt and waist beads (tik nungo) and earrings (stadi)

leaning on two spears

On the left a number of donkeys stand by a stone wall

they are celebrating the festival of Eid at the end of Ramadan

Resting on the sand in front of them is a woven mat piled high with meat

The women have large baskets with them

View of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party descending the steep slope of a high dune face in the Bani Ma'arid sands of the Empty Quarter (Rub' al Khali)

likely qassis (sedge)

two women and a toddler sit around the fire

He wears a cartridge belt and leather suspenders over his thobe