Portrait of Rai al Raqiqa ... Frame:black

Portrait of Rai al Raqiqa ... Frame:blackPortrait of Rai al Raqiqa, a member of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party, sitting in the sand during the party's journey from Yisub well to Wadi Darbat. Rai al Raqiqa is a tribesman of the Bayt Kathir Bedouin. 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.

rowboats covered with cloth canopies

In the foreground one of Wilfred Thesiger's Bedouin travelling companions hauls up a bag of water from a well that has been reinforced with wood

Salim bin Ghabaisha crouches on a rocky outcrop looking at a piece of plant that he is holding in his hand

View of Wilfred Thesiger's party during their journey through the Jol from Fughmah to Ghayl bin Yamayn

a square stone and coral fort that has a high round watchtower topped with a flagpole on its near corner

In the foreground a man walks past an abra (ferry boat) with a cloth canopy sitting in shallow water on the right

View of a man standing in front of a large stone building in the village of Ash Shaykh

In the background a few palm trees grow in a field of grain

Cutter Greyhound

He wears a loose ghutra (headscarf) tied with an 'agal (head rope) and a light coloured thobe (shirt)

another two men hold the sail in their arms

who accompanied Thesiger in Kurdistan