View of one of Wilfred ... Size:medium

View of one of Wilfred ... Size:mediumView of one of Wilfred Thesiger's guides in a valley on Jebel Hafeet [Jabal Hafit] mountain. A man wearing a thobe (long shirt) and ghutra (headscarf) stands on a rock beside a dry riverbed in a rocky valley. In the background limestone walls rise on either side of the narrow valley. Mostly leafless shrubs grow amongst the large rocks scattered over the valley floor. Wilfred Thesiger spent a week on Jebel Hafeet [Jabal Hafit] hunting Arabian Tahr

the yarn is allowed to be taken up on the upper end of the shaft

a tribesman of the Bayt Imani lineage of Rashid Bedouin and one of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling companions

dragging a camel (from Wilfred Thesiger's caravan) across the Kerio River after it had refused to cross

wearing an animal skin around his shoulders

wearing head and neck ornaments (including what appear to be two leather charm cases)

being carried around Lhasa

Female attendants at the 'Preparing the camp at Lubu' (klu sbug sgar sgrig) ceremony on a grassy meadow south of the Lingkor

This was the first time that Thesiger had worn Arab dress and he looks slightly uneasy and self-conscious

while the building on the right is topped with a layer of adobe and parallel lines of raqf (slate) tiles to prevent weather erosion

Close-up of a Samburu initiate decorated with ochre paint and ear ornaments at the end of the circumcision rites

bead and metal ornaments around his neck

a sheikh of the Musaifar lineage of Rashid Bedouin and one of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling companions