Seated portrait of a tribesman ...

Seated portrait of a tribesman of the Rashid Bedouin at an encampment near Bir al Tawil in the Ramlat ar Rabbad. This man is the son of Muhammad, a sheikh of the Rashid Bedouin, with whom Wilfred Thesiger stayed for a few days during his first crossing of the Empty Quarter (Rub' al Khali). He is sitting cross-legged in the sand next to a small pile of firewood and a mat piled high with chunks of meat. In his right hand he holds a large curved dagger.

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