View of a camel caravan ... Africa 2

View of a camel caravan ... Africa 2View of a camel caravan resting before Al Mukalla. In the far left distance a minaret is visible. 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 central distance three of Wilfred Thesiger's Rashid Bedouin companions ride camels across a low dune

bow pointing to the left distance

On the left one group rests in the gravel below the ravine's slopes of barren rock

The man sitting on the right may be Mabkhaut bin Duailan

in front of another tent made of woven mats

Behind him large trees grow in sandy soil

A few men work to repair a large beached dhow

A sand dune lies in the foreground

which is in the midst of a vast flat plain

facing directly forward

On the woman's back are large engraved discs of silver

It has several storeys and is built from white and dark stone