3 0 c m
40cm
actual image size: 32cm x 21cm
Description
Full length portrait of one of Wilfred Thesiger's guides standing in a valley on Jebel Hafeet [Jabal Hafit] mountain. In the foreground a man wearing a thobe (long shirt), a ghutra (headscarf) stands with his gun on rock strewn ground beside Jebel Hafeet [Jabal Hafit]. In the background two camels graze behind a tall bush on the left. The high limestone slopes of Jebel Hafeet [Jabal Hafit] rise in the right background. 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
2004.130.17816.1
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
Photographer
Wilfred Patrick Thesiger
Date
April 6-30, 1948
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