3 0 c m
40cm
actual image size: 32cm x 21cm
Description
View of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party at a well in the Ramlat al Ghirbaniyat (Ghirbaniyat Sands). In the foreground men are gathering water from the well for a number of camels waiting on the right. Musallim bin Al Kamam, a sheikh of the Musaifar lineage of Rashid Bedouin, sits in the central foreground. He is holding out a metal pan of water for the camels. In the background trees and bushes grow in the sand around the well.
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
2004.130.22466.1
Format
Film Negative 35mm
Country
Oman
Region
Al Wusta Region [Al Minţaqah al Wusţā]; Ramlat al Ghirbaniyat [Ramlat al Ghirbānīyāt]
Cultural Group
Bedouin; Bedouin Rashid Musaifar
Photographer
Wilfred Patrick Thesiger
Date
February 20 - March 4, 1949
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