Portrait of a man of ... Thesiger Collection

Portrait of a man of ... Thesiger CollectionPortrait of a man of the Mahra Bedouin at Habarut [Habrut] wells. 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 right background a high wall and watchtower sit in front of a grove of date palms

'arish huts and enclosures made from palm fronds sit in the sand along the shore

He carries a rifle in a tasselled leather sheath over his left shoulder and is leaning on a camel stick

In the foreground a lone bush grows in the bare sands at the right

almost bare of vegetation

a Zuni 'summer resort'

Sahail bin Tahi kneels in sand with his knees together and his hands folded in his lap

in thick vegetation in Bandhavgarh National Park

In front of the two young men items for making coffee

View of a member of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party trekking up a sand dune between oases in Liwa oasis

grazing on a marakh bush in a small wadi near Sanaw

with a saddled horse and two goats