3 0 c m
40cm
actual image size: 32cm x 21cm
Description
View of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party resting on their journey from Dhibi well through Al Dhafra sands to Al Batin sands. A group of couched camels rest in a wide flat plain dotted with sparse shoots of vegetation. Two of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling companions, tribesman of the Bayt Imani lineage of Rashid Bedouin, stand with the camels. The man on the right adjusts the load on a camel.
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
2004.130.17880.1
Format
Film Negative 35mm
Country
United Arab Emirates
Region
Empty Quarter [Rub‘ al Khali]; Ash Sharqiyah Province [Al Minţaqah ash Sharqīyah]; Al Dhafra - Abu Dhabi Emirate; Al Gharbia Region; Al Dhafra
Cultural Group
Bedouin Rashid Bayt Imani
Photographer
Wilfred Patrick Thesiger
Date
February 22 - March 3, 1948
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