4 0 c m
30cm
actual image size: 21cm x 32cm
Description
Seated portrait of Alaiwa bin Lutaiya, a guide in Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party, taken during the party's journey from Ramlat al Ghirbaniyat to Furai well. Alaiwa bin Lutaiya, a tribesman of the Marakhin lineage of Duru Bedouin, faces forward, sitting with one hand on his thigh. He wears a striped ghutra (headscarf) and a light coloured thobe (shirt). In the background vegetation grows in flat sand.
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
2004.130.22486.1
Format
Film Negative 35mm
Country
Oman
Region
Al Wusta Region [Al Minţaqah al Wusţā]; Ramlat al Ghirbaniyat [Ramlat al Ghirbānīyāt] - Ash Sharqiyah Region; Sharqiyah Sands; Furai [Furay‘]
Cultural Group
Bedouin Duru Marakhin
Photographer
Wilfred Patrick Thesiger
Date
February 20 - March 4, 1949
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