Portrait of two members of ... Type:unstretched canvas

Portrait of two members of ... Type:unstretched canvasPortrait of two members of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party sitting beside a cooking fire in the Wadi al 'Umayri. Rai, a member of the 'Ifaar tribe, sits on the left. Rai joined Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party in Wadi al 'Umayri as a rabi'a (a local escort who ensures safe passage through a tribal area). 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

and is looking into the far left distance

One boy sits in the foreground and is mixing something in a cooking pot

isolated dunes in the Ghanim Sands in the region between Khasfah well in the Ramlat Khasfah and Matki well near Mughshin Oasis

The men stand beside their heavily loaded camels at the edge of a shallow creek in a gravelly wadi

with the prow of Wilfred Thesiger's tarada (sheikh's canoe) prominent in the foreground

The plain continues into the far distance

wearing a hat made of plaited palm leaves

Portrait of four Qara tribesmen

View of four members of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party butchering a camel at Mughshin Oasis

sheltering in a nearby cave after the bombing of Bait Bosh by the Republican forces during the Yemen Civil War

in the Ramlat as Sahmah

He wears a knitted vest and a wraparound skirt