4 0 c m
30cm
actual image size: 21cm x 32cm
Description
Seated portrait of a young tribesman of the Wahiba Bedouin in the Wadi Halfayn. The boy wears a khanjar (dagger) over his thobe (shirt) and an embroidered headscarf tied with an 'agal (head rope). He is sitting on a woven blanket.
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
2004.130.22614.1
Format
Film Negative 35mm
Country
Oman
Region
Ash Sharqiyah Region; Wadi Halfayn [Wādī Ḩalfayn]
Cultural Group
Bedouin Wahiba
Photographer
Wilfred Patrick Thesiger
Date
March 20-24, 1949
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