View of a member of ... Thesiger Collection

View of a member of ... Thesiger CollectionView of a member of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party standing on a dune in Al Batin sands during their journey across the Empty Quarter (Rub' al Khali) from Al Dhafra sands to Liwa oasis. A line of footprints leads from the foreground towards a man, a tribesman of the Bayt Imani lineage of Rashid Bedouin, who is standing on a dune crest. The man casts a long shadow over bare, rippled sand. A vast expanse of low rolling dunes spreads out across the

a tribesman of the Marakhin lineage of Duru Bedouin

(gos sku) for the

'Amair bin 'Omar's face is shaded from the sun by his ghutra (headscarf) which is wrapped closely around his head

Wilfred Thesiger is in the middle row

At the far right one of the men looks through binoculars into the left distance

oarsmen wait for passengers beside their abra at the ferry launch

though they still use the old Mexican wooden cart and plow

The market stalls are set into a building and have large wooden doors

Group portrait of three officials

View of four Awamir Bedouin women at a well near Al Ain

In the foreground a large compound of 'arish huts

In the foreground there is a road