Portrait of a man at ... Jacques-Philippe Potteau

Portrait of a man at ... Jacques-Philippe PotteauPortrait of a man at the village of 'Arish. 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.

heading towards the far right distance

Further back a group of transport donkeys wait in the water beside the dhow

Portrait of a boy of the Qara tribe kneeling in sand at a pool in the Wadi Darbat

At the far left a third man walks on foot

Portrait of two Bedouin men in Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party sitting at a campfire in the Wadi 'Andam

Behind them boys play and swim close to shore alongside dhows moored in shallow water

Standing full length portrait of a boy at Khanfer

Reeds grow on the edge of the pool

Just behind the bush is a deep sand trough which leads to a second dune ridge

Wilfred Thesiger's party trekking in the region above Wadi Kidyut

At the centre Salim bin Ghabaisha

Portrait of a boy of the Al Thalid tribe in Jabal Dhahran