Portrait of a herds boy ... Type:unstretched canvas

Portrait of a herds boy ... Type:unstretched canvasPortrait of a herds boy of the Bayt Kathir Bedouin in Dhofar. 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.

He has a trimmed and pointed beard

Group portrait of girls

In the foreground a boy stands above the opening of a well

Two small tombs with domed roofs sit in the far distance in a wadi (dry riverbed) dotted with a few trees

Their industries

In the foreground a few camels rest in the sand

In the foreground a young boy stands turned towards the left

Beside him a second man perches on the bow of the boat

He wears a khanjar (dagger) on a cartridge belt over his thobe (shirt) and wears a plain headscarf

'the point of the drill is a small flake of flint fastened in a slit in the lower end of the shaft which is tightly wrapped either with a string or sinew

and later accompanied Wilfred Thesiger on all his journeys in the Rub' al Khali (Empty Quarter)

Beside the tree at the centre a group of people with camels pull water from the well