Portrait of Hamad, a Bedouin ... Miscellaneous

Portrait of Hamad, a Bedouin ... MiscellaneousPortrait of Hamad, a Bedouin guide in Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party, watering camels at Furai well in the Sharqiyah Sands. Hamad, a tribesman of the Mahra Bedouin, stands on the right holding a leather bag full of water. He wears a light coloured thobe (shirt) topped with a cartridge belt and an embroidered headscarf. Behind him a number of camels drink from cloth lined trough dug into the sand. Due to the nature of these images, prints will

accompanied Wilfred Thesiger on his 1946 and 1947 journeys through the Hejaz region

View of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party trekking in the Uruq al Awarik sands or Al Jaladah plain in the Empty Quarter (Rub' al Khali)

hunting hippo

The boy in the centre left is Jewish

on the left

On the left a metal bowl lies in the sand near a dry bush

He is wearing a plain headscarf and a dark coloured thobe (shirt)

looking through the open window of a house

The older boy wears a western waistcoat over his thobe (long shirt)

He is wearing a plain headscarf and a thobe (shirt)

holding a needle and thread in his hands

In the foreground four tall date palm trees grow in a depression