
3 0 c m
40cm
actual image size: 32cm x 21cm
Description
View of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party trekking through Al Batin sands during their journey across the Empty Quarter (Rub' al Khali) from Al Dhafra sands to Liwa oasis. Members of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party, tribesmen of the Bayt Imani lineage of Rashid Bedouin, ride in a line across a large salt flat (sabkha) with their baggage camels. The flat is dotted with salt bushes. The sands in the foreground are bare except for a few scattered twigs and a lone bush at the right. Behind the men a large wind-rippled dune rises in the distance.
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.
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.
Image Details
Accession Number
2004.130.17766.1
Format
Film Negative 35mm
Country
United Arab Emirates
Region
Empty Quarter [Rub‘ al Khali]; Abu Dhabi Emirate; Al Gharbia Region; Al Batin [Al Baţīn]
Cultural Group
Bedouin Rashid Bayt Imani
Photographer
Wilfred Patrick Thesiger
Date
March 1-5, 1948
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