3 0 c m
40cm
actual image size: 32cm x 21cm
Description
View of one of Wilfred Thesiger's guides standing below Jebel Hafeet [Jabal Hafit] mountain. A man in an thobe (long shirt), and ghutra (headscarf), carrying a rifle under his arm, stands at the centre of a rock strewn flat looking towards high limestone cliffs. Low trees and shrubs grow in the rocky soil surrounding him. Behind him jagged limestone cliffs, bare of vegetation, rise high above the flat on the left, and continue into the far distance at right. 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
2004.130.17831.1
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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