4 0 c m
30cm
actual image size: 21cm x 32cm
Description
Half length seated portrait of a guide in Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party, a tribesman of the Wahiba Bedouin, in the Wadi 'Andam, possibly at Al Jiza well. The man has a long beard and wears a coloured thobe (shirt) topped with a khanjar (dagger) and a headscarf tied with an 'agal (head rope).
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
2004.130.22592.1
Format
Film Negative 35mm
Country
Oman
Region
Ash Sharqiyah Region; Wadi Halfayn [Wādī Ḩalfayn]
Cultural Group
Bedouin Wahiba
Photographer
Wilfred Patrick Thesiger
Date
March 20-24, 1949
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