Seated portrait of Muhammad bin ... PakistanSeated portrait of Muhammad bin Al Jabari, one of Wilfred Thesiger's Bedouin guides, at a campfire in Ramlat ar Rabbad sands. Muhammad bin Al Jabari, a tribesman of the Awamir Bedouin, sits in the foreground surrounded by coffee urns and cooking pots. He is snapping firewood for the fire in front of him, on which one of the urns sits. He wears a cartridge belt over his thobe (shirt) and a headscarf topped with an 'agal (head rope). In the distance
The houses have small square windows and slate tiles protruding from their walls
View of a graveyard in Tarim
The falcon's head is turned towards the left
Each person wears a thobe (shirt) and a headscarf
View of Wilfred Thesiger's party riding through the Al Qafa' or As Saruq region north of Liwa oasis
The shaved strip on his head shows he has not been circumcised
View of a member of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party riding a camel during the party's journey from Khawr bin 'Atarit well in the Ghanim Sands to the Ramlat al Ghafah
just west of Shibam
A small white domed building with a palm tree next to it
He wears a patterned ghutra (headscarf) on his head and a light coloured waistcoat over his thobe (long shirt)
The boys stand around a mud trough
being towed with a rope by three young men walking at the water's edge