Portrait of a man of ... Tibet

Portrait of a man of ... TibetPortrait of a man of the Khawlan Bedouin at Suq 'Ayban market under Jabal Fayfa. 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.

he is wearing an Arab style of dress common among the Yazidis of Jabal Sinjar

with cultivated terraces on a hillside in the foreground

Portrait of a boy of the Mahra Bedouin at a well in Wadi Shalhamit

View of Wilfred Thesiger's party resting under ghaf [Prosopis cineraria] trees in the Sharqiyah Sands

He wears a thobe (long shirt) and a plain ghutra (headscarf) topped with a dark 'agal (head rope)

In the central foreground a saddled camel stands on a dune slope next to a dry bare bush

View of snow-covered mountains

ringed by men watching the action

Further beyond one of Wilfred Thesiger's Bedouin companions stands in the midst of the dunes

The young boy at the centre

Behind them on the right a group of men stand alongside a length of sail which has been tied in a long roll

He also holds a rifle