View of an Awazim or ... Images of Wilfred Thesiger

View of an Awazim or ... Images of Wilfred ThesigerView of an Awazim or Ajman Bedouin family at their tent in the region between Kuwait City and Al Qatif on the Persian Coast. 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.

sit in front of the house on the right

Two of the riders at the centre carry peregrine falcons on their arms

Some men and cattle are around the well

A low rock escarpment rises above the plain at the far right

In the background a two storey house two lattice carved window screens on its second storey

while below his camel grazes on some vegetation

Two small tombs with domed roofs sit in the far distance in a wadi (dry riverbed) dotted with a few trees

View of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party descending a dune in the Al Batin sands

sitting in a doorway

He is holding a rifle and has binoculars around his neck

This picture was taken at Boi when Wilfred Thesiger's smaller crossing party rejoined the larger Bedouin expedition party lead by Sultan bin Ahmad and Salim bin Tamtaim

In the distance beyond a steep ravine cuts through high barren plains