Half length seated portrait of ... Afghanistan

Half length seated portrait of ... AfghanistanHalf length seated portrait of a guide in Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party, a tribesman of the Wahiba Bedouin, in the Wadi 'Andam, possibly at Al Jiza well. The man has a long beard and wears a coloured thobe (shirt) topped with a khanjar (dagger) and a headscarf tied with an 'agal (head rope). 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.

had collapsed from illness and was subsequently butchered for food

Portrait of a young man with plaited hair

Behind the tumulus a vast empty flat stretches out uninterrupted to the far horizon

The ferries

Behind the camels on the right a Manasir man and girl stand in front of a tent

a water trough made from wood and leather

Bird and Flower Painting by Sue Johnson 2011

View of a house at Wama

View of a member of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party sitting on the crest of a sand dune in the Ramlat al Ghirbaniyat (Ghirbaniyat Sands)

Behind the shelters are a number of square

View of ghada trees in Al Khatam sands near Jebel Hafeet (Jabal Hafit)

In the foreground an expanse of gravel sits atop a mountain top