Group portrait of Wilfred Thesiger ... Type:stretched canvasGroup portrait of Wilfred Thesiger with the four members of his travelling party who accompanied him on his first crossing of the Rub' al Khali (Empty Quarter). In the first row Musallim bin Tafl, a tribesman of the Bayt Kathir Bedouin, sits on the left. Salim bin Kabina, a young tribesman of the Bayt Imani lineage of Rashid Bedouin, sits on the right. In the back row Mabkhaut bin Arbain, a tribesman of the Bayt Gidad lineage of Bayt Kathir Bedouin,
View of multi-storeyed buildings surrounding the main plaza of Tewa pueblo on First Mesa
View of dhows (sailboats) beached in the sand on the shoreline of Kuwait City
He wears a plain ghutra (headscarf) draped over his head and chest and a worn thobe (long shirt)
In the far distance steep cliffs run along the far side of the wadi
Close-up view of petroglyphs cut into solid rock on the road between Bardai and Aouzou
View of Salim bin Ghabaisha and Salim bin Kabina
with Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party in the foreground
looks towards the camera
At the far left the bow of a dhow is visible at the edge of the frame
In the background dhows (sailboats) and other small craft are beached in the sand
At the back of the dhow a cloth covered awning is blown by the wind
past a sand bank and the many moored dhows that line the shore
