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Portrait of four members of ... Frame:whitePortrait of four members of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party watering camels at Furai well in Sharqiyah Sands. Wilfred Thesiger's Bedouin companions stand grouped around Furai well. Two of the men stand alongside the opening of the well, hauling water from the well in a leather bag. Behind them a crowd of camels wait. Due to the nature of these images, prints will reproduce any signs of age, wear or damage that occurred before they were archived by

View of a party of people including Wilfred Gilbert Thesiger [father of Wilfred Patrick Thesiger]

man facing camera

with goats

In the distance behind Al Khandaq fort sits on the left next to a date palm plantation

View of a member of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party riding through desert sands during the party's journey from the Wadi al 'Ayn to the Ramlat al Ghirbaniyat (Ghirbaniyat Sands)

He has a headscarf (ghutra) draped over his head and wears a khanjar (dagger) tucked into a leather belt over his thobe (long shirt)

and leans heavily on the camel stick in his left hand

Small shoots of vegetation grow out of the sand across the ground beneath their feet

Further ahead of them in the right background another two members of the party ride their camels towards distant rippled dunes and a salt flat

Musallim bin Al Kamam wears a dark ghutra (headscarf) wrapped around his head and a thobe (long shirt) cinched with a cartridge belt

View of Rashid Bedouin at a well in the region surrounding Kuwait City

making coffee on a campfire in the region surrounding the town of Al Hofuf