Three-quarter length portrait of Muhammad ... Miscellaneous

Three-quarter length portrait of Muhammad ... MiscellaneousThree quarter length portrait of Muhammad, a sheikh of the Rashid Bedouin, in his encampment in the Ramlat ar Rabbad sands near Bir al Tawil. Muhammad, an elderly man with a long white beard, reclines in the sand, propped up on his right elbow. In the background a number of men sit in a semicircle. Wilfred Thesiger and his Bedouin companions stayed with Muhammad and his sons during Wilfred Thesiger's first crossing of the Empty Quarter (Rub' al Khali)

Portrait of Erope

In the background the water surrounding the boat is calm and flat

At the centre a group of men sit to one side of the boat's mast

View of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party crossing the Uruq al Shaiba

The boys are followed by a line of men holding muskets

a tribesman of the Bayt Imani lineage of Rashid Bedouin and another of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling companions

while women and a child sit inside the left section

View of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party at Dhiby well in the Empty Quarter (Rub' al Khali)

with vegetation in the foreground

Equipment is piled in the sand in front of the tree

View of a sand dune and a date palm grove in Liwa oasis

Portrait of three Wahiba Bedouin at Buraymah well in the Wadi Halfayn