
3 0 c m
40cm
actual image size: 32cm x 21cm
Description
View of salt bushes growing on a flat in Al Batin sands in the Empty Quarter (Rub' al Khali). In the foreground two large salt bushes grow in an area of bare sand. Behind them a thick cluster of salt bushes grows along the edge of a large salt flat (sabkha) between two ridges of high dunes.
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
2004.130.17758.1
Format
Film Negative 35mm
Country
United Arab Emirates
Region
Empty Quarter [Rub‘ al Khali]; Abu Dhabi Emirate; Al Gharbia Region; Al Batin [Al Baţīn]
Photographer
Wilfred Patrick Thesiger
Date
March 1-5, 1948
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