2004.130.6593.1

Collection type

Photograph

Description

View of Wilfred Thesiger's party travelling across high dunes in the region of Kidan plains (Suhul al Kidan) or Al Batin sands in the Empty Quarter (Rub‘ al Khali). Wilfred Thesiger's Bedouin companions lead their camels down a slight slope towards another dune in the near distance.

Geographical reference

Saudi Arabia

Asia > Western Asia > Saudi Arabia

United Arab Emirates

Asia > Western Asia > United Arab Emirates

Empty Quarter [Rub‘ al Khali]; Ash Sharqiyah Province [Al Minţaqah ash Sharqīyah]; Suhul al Kidan [Suhūl al Kidan - Abu Dhabi Emirate; Al Gharbia Region; Al Batin [Al Baţīn]

Cultural groups

Bedouin

Person

Photographer Wilfred Patrick Thesiger

Expedition or compiler Wilfred Thesiger First Empty Quarter Crossing 1946-47

PRM source Wilfred Patrick Thesiger

Date / Period

Date of photograph: 13/12/1946 - 18/12/1946

Acquisition information

Acceptance in Lieu: 03/2004

Photographic process

Negative film Kodak

Black & White

Dimensions

Image dimension 35 mm

Object numbers

Accession number: 2004.130.6593.1 Previous PRM number: WT.T.47.12 Previous other number: T/47.12

Research and responses

Research Notes - "We were now across the Rub‘ al Khali and amongst the wells and permanent grazing of hadh, shinan, and harm on which the Badu fall back in a poor year. In general these sands are white although Ramlat al Hamra north of Rabadh is red. They vary between rolling downs of hard sand (dakaka) interspersed with small sabkhas such as the sands of southern Dhafara and much of the Batin, and small adjoining crescent dunes of uniform size (rabadh) in northern Dhafra, Kidan, and Rabadh." Wilfred Thesiger, pp. 8-9, in "Across the Empty Quarter", The Geographical Journal, Vol. 111, No. 1-3, 1948. [AK 16/02/2011]

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