Portrait of a Bedouin boy ... Frame:natural

Portrait of a Bedouin boy ... Frame:naturalPortrait of a Bedouin boy from a camel caravan at Al Mukalla. The boy is tying a bag together with a rope. More bags are lying around him. 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.

Wilfred Thesiger's Bedouin companions trek in a line across a flat expanse of wind-rippled sand

In the foreground thick clumps of leafy zahra (yellow-flowering tribulus) bloom with small flowers grows alongside clumps of long qassis (sedge)

In the foreground a vast rocky plain leads to fields and a cluster of buildings in the city of Abha

The camels face forward

Tall trees grow in the left and right distance

leaning on a spear

In the far background two boys can be seen walking along the road near a couched camel

View of a member of Wilfred Thesiger's party riding a camel in the Ramlat as Sahmah

On the right a dhow (sailboat) is moored in shallow water

In the background a man stands by a bush on which a cooking pot rests

seen though a line of spears

Half length seated portrait of a young man of the Bayt Kathir Bedouin in the Wadi Shutaynah or Wadi 'Aydim