3 0 c m
40cm
actual image size: 32cm x 21cm
Description
Portrait of members of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party men butchering a camel in the Shi'b al Raqq near the Haij well. In the foreground a group of men are gathered around a dead camel. They are starting to skin the camel from the neck down. Musallim bin Al Kamam, a sheikh of the Musaifar lineage of Rashid Bedouin, stands at the far left side. Another man stands in the foreground, cutting the skin off the camel's back.
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
2004.130.22543.1
Format
Film Negative 35mm
Country
Oman
Region
Ash Sharqiyah Region; Sharqiyah Sands; Shib al Raqq; Haij [Ḩayy]
Cultural Group
Bedouin; Bedouin Rashid Musaifar
Photographer
Wilfred Patrick Thesiger
Date
March 7, 1949
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