View from a hillside looking ... Size:small

View from a hillside looking ... Size:smallView from a hillside looking down into a valley in the region surrounding the village of Sawda. 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.

The square stone buildings are built alongside a vast rocky field

View of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party trekking through in the desert during the party's journey from Shisr well to Mughshin Oasis

they are wearing elaborate metal jewellery

Two of the men are wearing hats made from woven palm leaves

In the foreground small secondary dunes and footprints mark the surface of steeply sloping sand dune

On the left one man pulls a line of rope from the well

Sheikh Mubarak bin Mohammed Al Nahyan

One of the men is tying up a animal skin filled with water

They are starting to skin the camel from the neck down

a Yazidi elder

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He wears a khanjar (dagger) on a cartridge belt and suspenders over his light coloured thobe (shirt) and a ghutra (headscarf) topped with an 'agal (head rope)