Portrait of Muhammad al Auf ... Frame:black

Portrait of Muhammad al Auf ... Frame:blackPortrait of Muhammad al Auf, a tribesman of the Bayt Mbarik lineage of Rashid Bedouin and one of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling companions, at the encampment of Muhammad near Bir al Tawil in the Ramlat ar Rabbad sands. Muhammad al Auf sits holding a piece of cloth across his lap. He is leaning on a pile of equipment, including blankets, a rifle and a cartridge belt. In the background a parched plant grows out of the sand. Muhammad, a sheikh of the

taken during Wilfred Thesiger's journey to Baynunah

containing tea bricks

View of Wilfred Thesiger's party in their camp in Al Khatam or Al Humrah sands south of Al Ain

which also enclose a date palm plantation

In the far background a few bushes grow scattered across the sand

Portrait of a Samburu boy sitting on a rock at the edge of a pool of water

In the near distance sits a cluster of one and two storey buildings built from adobe bricks topped with parallel lines of raqf (slate) tiles

wearing strappings which rope them together

while on the right a large sand dune rises

holding a spoon above the pot

View of a woman of the Sa'ar Bedouin sitting with a young boy and a baby at Manwakh well

a form of headdress typical of the Chleuh