View of Wilfred Thesiger's Bedouin ...

View of Wilfred Thesiger's Bedouin ...View of Wilfred Thesiger's Bedouin travelling companions drinking coffee with Hamad bin Saadna in the Ramlat ar Rabbad sands east of Liwa. Five men kneel in a semicircle around a cooking pot and two ceramic cups. The young man second from left is Salim bin Kabina, a tribesman of the Bayt Imani lineage of Rashid Bedouin. In the centre is Muhammad al Auf, a tribesman of the Bayt Mbarik lineage of Rashid Bedouin. Second from the right is Hamad bin Saadna

View of Wilfred Thesiger's Bedouin travelling companions drinking coffee with Hamad bin Saadna in the Ramlat ar Rabbad sands east of Liwa. Five men kneel in a semicircle around a cooking pot and two ceramic cups. The young man second from left is Salim bin Kabina, a tribesman of the Bayt Imani lineage of Rashid Bedouin. In the centre is Muhammad al Auf, a tribesman of the Bayt Mbarik lineage of Rashid Bedouin. Second from the right is Hamad bin Saadna (known by Wilfred Thesiger as Hamad bin Hanna), who is sitting with clasped hands. Hamad bin Saadna is a cousin of Muhammad al Auf and descends from the Bayt Hanna lineage of Rashid Bedouin. Beside him, at the far right, is Musallim bin Tafl, another member of Wilfred Thesiger's party and a tribesman of the Bayt Kathir. This is the first picture of Hamad bin Saadna taken by Wilfred Thesiger. Thesiger and his party first met Hamad bin Saadna during their traverse of the Empty Quarter (Rub' al Khali) between the 'Uruq ash Shaybah dunes and Khaba well in Saudi Arabia.

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