Portrait of Wilfred Thesiger and ... John K. HillersPortrait of Wilfred Thesiger and Muhammad al Auf sitting side by side on a gravel plain in the region between Yisub well and Wadi Darbat. Muhammad al Auf, a tribesman of the Bayt Mbarik lineage of Rashid Bedouin, sits on the left holding a rifle. On the right Wilfred Thesiger is holding a camel stick and leans with one arm on his crouched knee. Due to the nature of these images, prints will reproduce any signs of age, wear or damage that occurred
rowboats covered with cloth canopies
View of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling loading up their camels in the Sharqiyah Sands
which is turned towards the left
Behind them a few animals wait by the well
In the left foreground a peregrine falcon stands in soft sand
Two Arab men sit side by side in the foreground
In the left foreground a sailor sews the edge of a length of sail cloth that has been spread out over the sand
standing with a laden pony
Some of the boys on the left wear no shirts and have tied their headscarves around their shoulders
The dune is dotted with a few tufts of vegetation and rippled with waves of secondary dunes
Some parts are made of wood
ride camels up a softly sloping dune towards a far ridge
