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Portrait of a man of ... Frame:naturalPortrait of a man of the Rashid Bedouin at Ghayl bin Yamayn. 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.

View of a peregrine falcon (shahin) killing its prey

and below the opening is reenforced with concrete or rammed earth

View of a member of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party riding a camel in the Wadi Andhur

Tufts of qassis (sedge) and other vegetation dot the rolling surface of a large sand dune

View of Wilfred Thesiger's party resting at a falaj (irrigation channel) at the southern end of Jabal Hafit

smoking a water-pipe in a tea-house

Seated portrait of a man

which is bordered by far wind-rippled dunes and dotted with some sparse vegetation

while the third man sits in the shade beside large piles of gear

and his extended family in the Ramlat ar Rabbad for a few days during their first crossing of the Empty Quarter (Rub' al Khali) in December 1946

The river is lined with shops and dotted with market boats

a tribesman of the Bayt Gidad lineage of Bayt Kathir Bedouin and one of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling companions