Portrait of a Mahra Bedouin ... Jacques-Philippe Potteau

Portrait of a Mahra Bedouin ... Jacques-Philippe PotteauPortrait of a Mahra Bedouin boy in the region between Sarif wells and Al Muqarqar. 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.

on their journey towards Al Humrah sands

alongside mud ruins and a few date palms

In the foreground a man loads one of his two donkeys with filled water skins

The two men on the left wear light coloured thobes (long shirts) and headscarves (ghutra)

View of locals watering cows and donkeys at a well near the village of Thurayban

Each of those standing holds a rifle in their right hand

On the right camels crowd around a mud trough

The head and neck of a thoroughbred Omani face towards the left in a profile pose

View of a member of Wilfred Thesiger's party standing below high dunes in the sands of the 'Uruq ash Shaybah

west of Sanaw

The boom has a large cloth canopy covering its middle deck

Seated portrait of an older Bedouin tribesman in the Ramlat ar Rabbad sands