Portrait of Muhammad al Auf ... Tibet

Portrait of Muhammad al Auf ... TibetPortrait of Muhammad al Auf, a tribesman of the Bayt Mbarik lineage of Rashid Bedouin and a member of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party, riding a camel through the Jiddat al Harasis during the party's journey from Boi well to Yisub well. 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.

fill the landscape to the far horizon

At the centre four men walk towards each other over an open area of grass

In the distance a low sand dune runs along the horizon below a sky streaked with wispy clouds

View of the snow-covered Annapurna peaks in the Himalaya range of mountains

He wears a thobe (long shirt) and a headscarf (ghutra) topped with thin black aghal (head ropes)

In the background three ghaf [Prosopis cineraria] trees grow behind the dune

View of an ox with long curved (trained) horns drinking from a wooden water-trough at Ilaut wells

A man wearing a plain thobe (shirt) and a headscarf topped with an 'agal (head rope) stands facing forward

and an upright bow

In the foreground a line of boys

in the Wadi Thu'ayt

resting with his load