View of a member of ... Thesiger Collection

View of a member of ... Thesiger CollectionView of a member of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party in Al Dhafra sands during the party's journey to Baynunah. In the left distance one of Wilfred Thesiger's Rashid Bedouin companions sits on a camel standing next to a few large bushes growing on the slope of a sand dune dotted with scattered vegetation. The camel stands facing into the left distance with its head turned towards the foreground. In the far distance beyond, bare rolling sand dunes

The tent is clad in striped woven blankets and large palm mats

At the far right

He is leaning on a rifle

Portrait of a elderly tribesman of the Wahiba Bedouin at Wilfred Thesiger's camp in Wadi Hawshi

another man sits in the sand (most of this man's body is outside the frame)

Far behind them a few camels rest on a barren flat plain

In the far distance a vast expanse of sand dotted with vegetation spreads out behind them

In the far left background is a second archway in which another person can be seen standing

Each man wears a light coloured thobe (shirt) and a dark coloured ghutra (headscarf)

Further behind a ruined building

Many women have baskets of merchandise laid out in front of them

Some of the houses have domed roofs where the villagers are short of timber for beams