Seated portrait of a teenaged ... Iraq

Seated portrait of a teenaged ... IraqSeated portrait of a teenaged boy of the Sa'ar Bedouin in the Raydat as Say'ar region. He is flattening plant stalks between two stones. 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.

View of a man and a boy of the Sa'ar Bedouin hauling water from Manwakh well

cultivated by local Bani Yas villagers

In the distance tufts of vegetation continue to grow in the sand

Behind him another man stands on the right

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

Men rest while three camels drink water at a water trough

stands in an expanse of sand beside a few clumps of qassis (sedge)

In the background people wait beside the well while two men use ropes and pulleys to get water from the well

ride along an interior ridge near the top of a large dune

The butt-end is utilized as a comb

holidng a coffee-pot and two cups

a tributary of the Wadi Jiza