Seated portrait of a young ... Arabia

Seated portrait of a young ... ArabiaSeated portrait of a young tribesman of the Wahiba Bedouin in the Wadi Halfayn. The boy wears a khanjar (dagger) over his thobe (shirt) and an embroidered headscarf tied with an 'agal (head rope). He is sitting on a woven blanket. 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.

A boy wearing a ghutra (headscarf) and wraparound skirt stands in sand on the left

In the background a donkey stands in the street

Muhammad bin Al Jabari

In the foreground three of Wilfred Thesiger's Bedouin travelling companions stand beside their couched camels

On the right two men with rifles sit on a ruined wall beside a large bush

In the right foreground the stern of a boom sits in flat water rippled by gentle waves

carrying bows and blunted arrows

Behind the mosque the high walls of Al Muwaiji Fort fill the background

] These carts are never greased

camels and donkeys wait near the well

holding spears

east of the wells at Sanaw