Seated half length portrait of ... Frame:noneSeated half length portrait of Salim bin Habarut, a member of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party, taken during the party's journey from Ramlat al Ghirbaniyat to Furai well. Salim bin Habarut, a sheikh of the Junuba Bedouin, sits facing forward. He wears a dark coloured thobe (shirt) and an embroidered headscarf topped with an 'agal (head rope). Due to the nature of these images, prints will reproduce any signs of age, wear or damage that occurred
On the right Salim bin Ghabaisha
On the left a group of men rest in the shade of large tree
Servants can be seen in the background
In the foreground a few bushes grow from crevices between the rocks
He has a headscarf (ghutra) draped over his head and wears a khanjar (dagger) tucked into a leather belt over his thobe (long shirt)
View of camel in a wadi bed in the region between Dahal well and Qabr Hud well
Portrait of a recently circumcised Samburu boy wearing a black goat skin and ostrich feathers and small bird skins attached to his headband
View of a Bedouin man
and further back the mountain Jebel Hafeet (Jabal Hafit) is visible
Behind the boy a grove of date palms grows behind a mud wall
taken from the (seventeenth-century) castle of Fasilidas
a tribesman of the Awamir Bedouin)
