4 0 c m
30cm
actual image size: 20cm x 32cm
Description
Seated portrait of Salim bin Kabina, one of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling companions, resting on a rock face near Jebel Hafeet (Jabal Hafit) mountain. Salim bin Kabina, a tribesman of the Bayt Imani lineage of the Rashid Bedouin, sits on a rock face holding a rifle. He is tugging at the izaar (wraparound skirt) he wears under his thobe (long shirt). Salim bin Kabina also wears a cartridge belt over his thobe and a ghutra (headscarf). Wilfred Thesiger spent a week on Jebel Hafeet [Jabal Hafit] hunting Arabian Tahr [Hemitragus jayakari] with Arab and Bedouin guides in April 1948.
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
2004.130.17833.1
Format
Film Negative 35mm
Country
United Arab Emirates
Region
Abu Dhabi Emirate; Al Ain Region; Jebel Hafeet - Al Buraimi Governorate [Muḩāfaz̧at al Buraymī]; Jabal Hafit
Cultural Group
Bedouin Rashid Bayt Imani
Photographer
Wilfred Patrick Thesiger
Date
April 6-30, 1948
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