Salim bin Ghabaisha Iran

Salim bin Ghabaisha IranPortrait of Salim bin Ghabaisha, one of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling companions, sitting on the ground. 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.

In the foreground on the left a man walks past a tent made of woven mats

View of a badan

left) and Brian Thesiger (seated)

In the far distance a low sand bank stretches across the horizon

with a seventh young boy kneeling at the far left

The two women standing are wearing burqa (face masks worn by married women)

At the centre left a Bedouin tribesman (possibly a member of Wilfred Thesiger's party) kneels with his hands in his lap

Barren gravel stretches across a vast flat to the city of Abha

Group portrait of six villagers or Bedouin men with Arabian horses in the region of Al Ain oasis

with a saluki hunting dog in the Hamra sands near Liwa oasis

A house stands on the left

In the background a large grove of date palms grows in the sand