Portrait of two young men ... George Dixon Aked

Portrait of two young men ... George Dixon AkedPortrait of two young men of the Yam tribe taken by Wilfred Thesiger during his journey from the town of Najran to the town of Badr. 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.

High defensive towers sit at intervals along the city walls

A middle-aged man with a thin dark beard kneels in soft sand facing forward

surrounded by a high stone wall

He is carrying a wakir (block) in his right hand

The people stand at the top of a long

A camel is couched in front of the hut

In the foreground a man carrying a young boy and two women stand in a narrow street lined with shops

In the left distance one of Wilfred Thesiger's Rashid Bedouin companions sits on a camel standing next to a few large bushes growing on the slope of a sand dune dotted with scattered vegetation

Women and a child sit inside the left section of the tent

Behind them two men ride their camels toward the group

In the left foreground cooking pots sit on a ledge in one corner of Sheikh Saqr bin Mohammed Al Qasimi's fort

Behind them on the right a member of the party wearing a taqiyah cap and a thobe (long shirt) stands next to a bush