Portrait of a boy at ... Thesiger Collection

Portrait of a boy at ... Thesiger CollectionPortrait of a boy at Abha. 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.

who accompanied Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party from 'Izz to Al Muwaiji

He is wearing a plain headscarf and a dark coloured thobe (shirt)

spreads out in the depression behind them

Portrait of a teenaged boy from the Bani Malik tribe in the upper Wadi Damad

In the left background is the minaret of the Abu Maruf Mosque

may be Sheikh Tahnoun bin Mohammed Al Nahyan

In the far background the square Shindagha watchtower is visible standing high over the district

View of a man leading two camels across Al Maqta

View of a crowd of men waiting at the entrance to Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan's Al Muwaiji fort

and wears an 'agal (head rope) over a patterned ghutra (headscarf) and a light coloured thobe (shirt)

Two tied bundles of mats sit in the foreground in front of trunks

Portrait of a boy of the Khawlan Bedouin tribe at Suq 'Ayban market under Jabal Fayfa