- Collection type
- Photograph
- Description
- View of a Bedouin man in Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party trekking in the Ramlat ar Rabbad sands. In the foreground a man leads a line of camels across an area of mostly flat sand, heading towards the far distance. A few small trees and clumps of vegetation grow in the sand. In the far background a large dune rises in the distance.
- Geographical reference
- Abu Dhabi Emirate; Al Gharbia Region; Ramlat ar Rabbad [Ar Rabbāḑ] - Ad Dhahirah Region [Minţaqat az̧ Z̧āhirah]; Ramlat ar Rabbad [Ar Rabbāḑ]
- Cultural groups
- Bedouin
- Person
- Photographer Wilfred Patrick Thesiger
- Expedition or compiler Wilfred Thesiger United Arab Emirates and Oman Winter 1949-50
- PRM source Wilfred Patrick Thesiger
- Date / Period
- Date of photograph: 03/02/1950 - 12/02/1950
- Acquisition information
- Acceptance in Lieu: 03/2004
- Dimensions
- Image dimension 35 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 2004.130.25459.1 Previous PRM number: WT.1950.6.4 Previous other number: 1950/6.4
- Research and responses
Research Notes - 'Five days after Huwaishil's departure, the elders of the Muqairida required us to leave by the following afternoon.... We therefore decided to travel slowly westwards into the sands hoping that Huwaishil would overtake us.... Huwaishil joined us on February 5, two days after we had arrived in the Rabadh. We were delayed a further two days in the Rabadh by another bitter northerly gale with showers of rain, but arrived in the wadi al ‘Ain on February 12.' Wilfred Thesiger, pp. 158 in 'Desert Borderlands of Oman', Geographical Journal, 116, Oct. - Dec. 1950, pp. 137-168. [AK 24/05/2011]
Search terms: Topography, Animal Husbandry, Landscape/View
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