Portrait of Salim bin Ghabaisha ... Africa 2

Portrait of Salim bin Ghabaisha ... Africa 2Portrait of Salim bin Ghabaisha, one of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling companions, during the party's journey from Ayun pool to Mudayy. Salim bin Ghabaisha is a young tribesman of the Bayt Imani lineage of Rashid Bedouin. 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.

north of Al Ain/Buraimi oasis

In the background a member of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party stands with his camel

The men wave their hands at another camel that is trying to get to the water trough

A man wearing a thobe (long shirt) and ghutra (headscarf) stands on a rock beside a dry riverbed in a rocky valley

The bustard lies on its back in the sand

Buddha images carved into the rock face on part of the Lingkhor

Cutter Greyhound

[image indistinct]

riding a camel with a peregrine falcon in the Al Khatam sands near Jebel Hafeet (Jabal Hafit)

Beside him

sits at the centre of the group

where a few bushes grow in the sand