Seated portrait of Wilfred Thesiger ... George Dixon Aked

Seated portrait of Wilfred Thesiger ... George Dixon AkedSeated portrait of Wilfred Thesiger taken by an unknown photographer at the southern end of the mountain Jabal Hafit (Jebel Hafeet) near Al Qabil. Wilfred Thesiger sits in the foreground, resting his arm over his knee and holding a camel stick. He wears a khanjar (dagger) on a cartridge belt and leather suspenders over his thobe (shirt) and a headscarf topped with an 'agal (head rope). In the distance behind him trees and bushes grow on a flat plain

Tewa 'has been located for over two hundred years on an elevated mesa whose summit does not succeed a half a mile in length

View of a Bedouin man milking a camel in the Wadi Hawshi

Behind the boy is a cluster of typical adobe and raqf (slate) tile buildings

View of mounds of rocks and boulders sitting on a vast dry plain in the area surrounding the city of Abha

Two masked dancers wearing ritual robes and holding ritual implements

In the far distance low rolling dunes dotted with vegetation run into the horizon below a cloudless sky

He also wears a plain ghutra (headscarf) tied over his head

Potala can be faintly seen in the far distance

View of a group of Sa'ar Bedouin standing beside Manwakh well

A women and child stand in the sand beside a wooden post hung with sandals and blankets

More shrubs and bushes grow on the near side of the flat than at the far side

Two men sitting on the left next to piles of wood