View of one of Wilfred ... Frame:white

View of one of Wilfred ... Frame:whiteView of one of Wilfred Thesiger's Bedouin guides walking across a stoney plain below Jebel Hafeet [Jabal Hafit] mountain. A man wearing a light coloured ghutra (headscarf) and a dark thobe (long shirt) walks across a rocky flat plain dotted with tall leafless bushes. In the distance beyond the limestone walls of Jebel Hafeet [Jabal Hafit] mountain fill the background. Wilfred Thesiger spent a week on Jebel Hafeet [Jabal Hafit] hunting Arabian Tahr

sits with his body facing forward and his eyes half-closed

In the right foreground a man in a light-coloured thobe (long shirt) stands in an expanse of rocky sand dotted with grass and small shrubs

and (the mountain) Rakaposhi rising snow-capped in the distance

In the foreground a small boat and a large

Nearby three people sit at a stall selling cloths

spread out

taken from near the top of the Kachi Kuni Pass

as but few of the dwellings exceed two stor[ey]s

behind another tree

The effigies represent the dead man

moored in the port at Mahón

A man and a boy with a camel beside it