Seated portrait of one of ... Portraits of notable people

Seated portrait of one of ... Portraits of notable peopleSeated portrait of one of Wilfred Thesiger's Arab guides on a stoney plain below Jebel Hafeet [Jabal Hafit] mountain. The man kneels in stoney ground, resting his hands on his thighs. He wears a cartridge belt over his thobe (long shirt) and has large plain headscarf (ghutra) wrapped loosely around his head. In the background the stoney ground is bare of vegetation. In the far distance a line of trees grows along the bottom of Jebel Hafeet [Jabal

Behind them moored dhows line the shore

In the foreground three boys stand together in front of a group of three circular huts with high pointed roofs

alongside mud ruins and a few date palms

The tent style is distinctively non-Tibetan and the amchi is supporting his texts upon a package crate

Wilfred Thesiger's party hauling water from a well in the Wadi al 'Ayn

View of the Tisisat Falls on the Blue Nile soon after the river's emergence from Lake Tana

holding a bow and arrows

with a large bronze cauldron in the foreground

stand at the centre beside the well

The ground below the camel is covered in fine sand dotted with small vegetation

A large stone building is visible in the background behind the crowd

The boy stands facing towards the near left