Duru boy Special Orders

Duru boy Special OrdersPortrait of a boy, the son of Huaishil, a sheikh of the Duru tribe. 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.

In the background sits the city of Abha

All the men are wearing ghutra (headscarves) and thobe (long shirts) with cartridge belts and khanjar (daggers)

View of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party in the desert of the Empty Quarter (Rub' al Khali)

Rays of scattered sunlight filter through the palm frond canopy covering the market

Group portrait of two women and two children

in the Simien range of mountains

The falcon's body is turned slightly to the left

View of Wilfred Thesiger's party travelling in Al Khatam or Al Humrah sands south of Al Ain

View of an Arab man walking past a row of shops in a market in Kuwait City

on the gravel plains below Jabal Sumeini posing with a feral donkey shot by Wilfred Thesiger

belonging to Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan's hunting party

In the distance one and two storey buildings with wind towers (barjeel) line the far bank of the creek