Group portrait of a crowd ... Africa 2

Group portrait of a crowd ... Africa 2Group portrait of a crowd of men and boys standing in the suq (market) in the village of Al Makhwah. In the central foreground a man with herbs in his hair stands holding a basket. 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 camel is kneeling among the bags

An Arab guide in Wilfred Thesiger's party stands in the midst of a vast rocky plant left of a large tree

Some of the buildings are topped with adobe and parallel lines of raqf (slate) tiles

Behind the men sits a line of palms and a rolled up mat covered with palm fronds

Portrait of Muhammad al Auf

A View of the harbour at St

standing on rocks on Mount Hendren

In the far background rocky hills rise behind the city

In the near distance a few of Wilfred Thesiger's Bedouin companions camp in the shade of tall bushes

in the mountains near the southern coast

He holds a rifle and a camel stick and is drinking from a small cup

At the time of this photograph