
4 0 c m
30cm
actual image size: 21cm x 32cm
Description
Half length standing portrait of a boy of the Wahiba Bedouin at Buraymah well in the Wadi Halfayn. In the foreground a young boy stands turned towards the left. He is biting his thumbnail. He wears a thobe (shirt) and a headscarf topped with a braided 'agal (head rope). Behind him, on the right, a camel stands in the sand, while in the distance beyond a line of trees grows in the far background.
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
2004.130.22654.1
Format
Film Negative 35mm
Country
Oman
Region
Ad Dakhiliyah Region [Al Minţaqah ad Dākhilīyah]; Wadi Halfayn [Wādī Ḩalfayn]; Buraymah
Cultural Group
Bedouin Wahiba
Photographer
Wilfred Patrick Thesiger
Date
March 24, 1949
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