A group of people getting ... Size:small

A group of people getting ... Size:smallA group of people getting water from a well in the area of Seiyun. The people stand at the top of a long, steep ramp, surrounded by palm trees. Above the well is a wooden frame with a wheel, over which a rope runs. 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.

with supporting beams protuding through their outside walls

flat sea fills the horizon

View of two Sa'ar Bedouin men and a woman hauling water from Manwakh well

View of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party resting at Shisr well

On the far right a second tribesman stands amongst the rocks beside the spring

possibly a chief

or crowfoot (ranunculus aquatilis)

two small bushes grow on the slope of a high dune in the foreground

On the right a herd of camels waits behind the well

Standing full length portrait of Salim bin Kabina with Wilfred Thesiger's camel taken during the party's journey from the As Saruq sands to Abu Dhabi

standing on rocks

In the right distance Bedouin men in Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party walk past the ruin