View of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling ... Thesiger Collection

View of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling ... Thesiger CollectionView of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party at a well in the Ramlat al Ghirbaniyat (Ghirbaniyat Sands). In the foreground men are gathering water from the well for a number of camels waiting on the right. Musallim bin Al Kamam, a sheikh of the Musaifar lineage of Rashid Bedouin, sits in the central foreground. He is holding out a metal pan of water for the camels. In the background trees and bushes grow in the sand around the well. Due to the nature

The ropes have been tied to a cow and a camel

Group portrait of five men and two boys

resting at Hilaya well

In the far background an abra (ferry boat) launch sits on the opposite side of the creek between two buildings

Seated portrait of two young Bedouin boys from a camel caravan at Al Mukalla

They are standing before high rocks

stand with the camels

members of the Rashid Bedouin tribe

In the left foreground a large ghada (Haloxylon persicum Bunge) tree stands at the top of a low slope

a centre of the Zoroastrian community

Group portrait of young men chanting the lebarta

during the party's journey from Masruq well to Al Hubi village