Amara bin Thuqub Size:large

Amara bin Thuqub Size:largePortrait of a young man (named Amara bin Thuqub), one of Wilfred Thesiger's canoe boys. 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.

At the centre two men stand on the lee side of the low dune

Footprints lead from the near left to the central foreground where three of Wilfred Thesiger's Rashid Bedouin companions walk down a steeply sloping sand dune

crouches in the foreground

a samurai and officer on the 1864 Ikeda mission to France

A falconer in a light coloured thobe (long shirt) topped with a cartridge belt holds a peregrine falcon on a mangalah (cuff) on one arm

at a campfire in Ramlat ar Rabbad sands

Dunes in the sands near Umm al Zamul

Exterior view of the mudhif (guest house) belonging to Jabar bin Taki

each holding a rifle

View of traditional buildings in the city of Abha

along the shoreline

An old man with a curly grey beard and a neatly trimmed moustache stands in front of a leafless bush