Portrait of a man of ... Special Orders

Portrait of a man of ... Special OrdersPortrait of a man of the Bayt Zabnawt lineage of Mahra Bedouin at the Habarut [Habrut] wells. 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.

He is wearing a headscarf

The silt deposit is the result of a flood in the Wadi Umm al Hayt thirty to sixty years ago

Portrait of a Zuni girl

In the far distance softly rolling dunes stretch along the horizon high above the grove

In the central background two Wahiba men and a woman stand at the well opening

one is playing musical instrument

In the background a mosque and minaret sits along the left side of the street

while in the distance low vegetation and a far tree grow on a flat plain

View of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party in the Dhafara sands in the Empty Quarter (Rub' al Khali)

on top of which camel bones are piled

View of a member of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party in the Khatam sands

] The photograph shows quite clearly the beauty and compactness of this typical pueblo