View of Khawlan Bedouin at ... John K. Hillers

View of Khawlan Bedouin at ... John K. HillersView of Khawlan Bedouin at Suq 'Ayban market under Jabal Fayfa. A donkey is standing in the foreground. 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.

The men are tying sails

The young man on the left is wearing a short sword attached horizontally to his belt

In the background a flat plain stretches out to the far horizon behind them

Although Chapman refers to these masks as being made of papier mache they are more likely to have been carved from hardwood

Behind him salt bushes and date palms grow on a sand flat below a high sand dune

more vegetation grows scattered across a vast salt flat bordered by high dunes

from the near right into the left background

A protective glove used to carry a falcon lies beside the blanket

It is comprised of two large multi-storey buildings

In the foreground a saddled camel is couched in soft sand

On the far left a square stone watchtower

He wears a ragged waistcoat over his thobe (long shirt) and has a small plain ghutra (headscarf) tied around his head