Portrait of a young boy ... Iran

Portrait of a young boy ... IranPortrait of a young boy of the Utaybah Bedouin standing with a flock of black and white sheep at Al Qaiyah well. In the left background a woman and another child stand nearby. 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.

and two boys look on

even centuries

The silt deposit is the result of a flood in the Wadi Umm al Hayt thirty to sixty years ago

Behind him a few clumps of vegetation grow on the crests of low rolling dunes that stretch from the near distance into the far horizon

View of a carved wooden ornament marking a grave

The building's windows are filled with carved wooden window screens and painted decorations cover the plaster walls

An Arab man

Wilfred Thesiger's Bedouin companions trek in a line across a flat expanse of wind-rippled sand

In the far distance a rock escarpment rises above the wadi along the horizon

In the far distance a sheer faced rock mountain (likely Jebel Hafeet [Jabal Hafit]) sits below the horizon

Behind them the sea is empty and calm

View of a high dune in Al Batin sands in the Empty Quarter (Rub' al Khali)