Close up profile portrait of ... Images of Wilfred Thesiger

Close up profile portrait of ... Images of Wilfred ThesigerClose up profile portrait of a curly haired boy of the Mahamid lineage of Duru Bedouin, taken in the region west of the Hamrat ad Duru. The boy is the son of Huaishil, a man who was one of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling companions and a sheikh of the Duru. The boy stands facing towards the left. He is smiling. He wears a headscarf wrapped loosely around his head and a light coloured thobe (shirt). In the distance beyond dry vegetation lies in the sand.

The man has a thick dark beard and wears a dark coloured thobe (shirt) and a headscarf tied with an 'agal (head rope)

which is topped with an 'agal (head rope)

In the background other members of the party rest in the sand

View of Dinka men carrying spears (and wearing dance ormanents and accessories) at a funeral dance near Malakal

On the right a fourth man with another baggage camel rides past two trees growing on the side of the dune

The upper storey of the house is open with many arched open windows

At the far edge of the fields sits the city of Abha

He wears a plaid cloth wrapped around his shoulders and a checked headscarf tied with an 'agal (head rope)

View of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party resting on their mounts in the 'Uruq ash Shaybah sands of the Empty Quarter (Rub' al Khali)

Houses in Jeddah

King's New Year

In the left distance three tall tower houses rise in a clearing in a rocky landscape