Seated portrait of Mahalhal bin ... Type:stretched canvas

Seated portrait of Mahalhal bin ... Type:stretched canvasSeated portrait of Mahalhal bin 'Ati, one of Wilfred Thesiger's Bedouin guides, eating a meal during the party's journey from Ramlat al Ghirbaniyat to Furai well. Mahalhal bin 'Ati, a tribesman of the Al Khamis lineage of Awamir Bedouin, crouches in the foreground, placing a morsel of food in his mouth. He wears a light coloured thobe (shirt) and a dark coloured ghutra (headscarf). In the background sand fills the distance behind him. Due to the

stands at the centre left

Salim bin Ghabaisha crouches on a rocky outcrop looking into the far left distance

He also holds a cane in one hand

surrounded by high stone walls

View of a member of Wilfred Thesiger's Bedouin travelling party standing on a hillside in a wadi near the well of Ma' Shadid

He stands in a patch of sand

A few dots of vegetation grow in the sands surrounding them

In the background two wind towers (barjeel) sit atop a two storey house behind the fort

a third man is on foot

Portrait of a young Samburu man holding a bow and blunted arrows

A gate of the fort at Najran

The sky above is dotted with clouds