3 0 c m
40cm
actual image size: 32cm x 21cm
Description
Portrait of Salim bin Turkia and his son Musallim bin Anauf, members of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party, sitting side by side at the party's camp during their journey from Yisub well to Wadi Darbat. Salim bin Turkia, a tribesman of the Bayt Gidad lineage of Bayt Kathir Bedouin, sits on the left working on a rope. He is using a stone as an anvil and a smaller stone as a hammer. Musallim bin Anauf sits on the right, holding a piece of cloth in his lap.
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
2004.130.6824.1
Format
Film Negative 35mm
Country
Oman
Region
Dhofar Governorate [Muḩāfaz̧at Z̧ufār]; Jiddat al Harasis [Jiddat al Ḩarāsīs]; Yisub - Dhofar Governorate [Muḩāfaz̧at Z̧ufār]; Jabal Qara [Jabal Qarā]; Wadi Darbat
Cultural Group
Bedouin Bayt Kathir Bayt Gidad
Photographer
Wilfred Patrick Thesiger
Date
February 15-23, 1947
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