Portrait of Salim bin Turkia ... Size:small

Portrait of Salim bin Turkia ... Size:smallPortrait of Salim bin Turkia, a tribesman of the Bayt Kathir Bedouin and a member of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party, sitting on the ground during the party's journey from Shisr well to Mughshin Oasis. 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.

surrounded by high stone walls

In the distance beyond a dhow (sailboat) sails up the creek

Behind him a large sail fills with wind and blows back against a mast and the cockpit

He wears a cartridge belt over his thobe (long shirt)

Group portrait of Wilfred Thesiger with the four members of his travelling party who accompanied him on his first crossing of the Rub' al Khali (Empty Quarter)

The south face of the Potala hung with two silk applique banners of the Buddha surrounded by other Buddhas and Bodhisattvas

and Kassimi (left of Omar

Portrait of two boys of the Manahil Bedouin sitting in the shade of a tree in Sih Rabagh

wearing a bandolier and a large dagger in a scabbard across his waist

In the 'Uruq ash Shaybah in the Rub' al Khali (Empty Quarter)

curly dark hair

View of a Samburu man holding an ox still while another man lines up an arrow with the animal's jugular vein