Mahra Bedouin watering camels at ... John K. Hillers

Mahra Bedouin watering camels at ... John K. HillersMahra Bedouin watering camels at a well at 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.

In the foreground the crest of a sand dune stretches from left to right

In the right foreground a palm grows on a large sand flat

View of a few members of Wilfred Thesiger's party walking near the wells in Wadi Shalhamit

Profile portrait of a saker (hurr) falcon belonging to Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan's hunting party in the sands surrounding Al Ain

lead a pack of camels towards a distant salt flat (sabkha)

A stony slope to the left with a large round boulder

In the distance the low rolling dunes continue along the horizon below a cloudless sky

Further beyond domed circular huts with straw roofs fill the distance

a man and a boy walk in front of an 'arish hut

and in the far distance a jagged mountain rises above the horizon

a higher dune juts out above

at Yisub well