Portrait of a young Arab ... Size:medium

Portrait of a young Arab ... Size:mediumPortrait of a young Arab boy sitting with his feet in an irrigation channel in the town of Al Hofuf in Al Hasa Oasis. 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.

beneath his headscarf

A bunch of long round-bladed grass is selected

with a man standing outside

the rest of Wilfred Thesiger's party ride camels across sands

Next to him 'Amair bin 'Omar

with tall buildings at either side

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

In the distance a few dhows are moored in the far background

and a silver khanjar (dagger) on a belt around his waist

View of two of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling companions with heavily loaded camels in a gravelly wadi bed in the Wadi Tayyah

View of people sitting around the hull of an unfinished boat inside some kind of shelter

View of saf palms growing in rocky soil in Wadi Shutaynah