Seated portrait of Salim bin ... Type:stretched canvas

Seated portrait of Salim bin ... Type:stretched canvasSeated portrait of Salim bin Kabina, a sixteen or seventeen year old boy of the Bayt Imani lineage of Rashid Bedouin, at a well in the region of Wadi Khawat. This is the first portrait Wilfred Thesiger took of Salim bin Kabina. After this meeting Salim bin Kabina joined Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party, and later accompanied Wilfred Thesiger on all his journeys in the Rub' al Khali (Empty Quarter). Due to the nature of these images, prints will

sits facing to the left

surrounded by a high stone wall

On the far left the high jagged limestone cliffs of Jebel Hafeet [Jabal Hafit] rise above the flat

View of mounds of rocks and boulders sitting on a vast dry plain in the area surrounding the city of Abha

likely a mosque

a tribesman of the Bayt Gidad lineage of Bayt Kathir Bedouin and one of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling companions

Beyond the salt flat a high dune massif with deeply ridged slopes rises along the horizon

sometimes known as the Western Gateway

a boy is sitting on a donkey

Close up profile portrait of Mabarak

Behind him one and two storey houses built of coral sit along the creek

An older man with a long bushy grey beard and short hair sits in the sand with his arm resting on his knee