Auda abu Tayi

[tr ed p 222], pastel, Kennington

'Auda abu Tayi' typeset tlc. Main colours: brown/beige tones in face, white head-dress, black, cream and red in clothes, background grey.

Chief of the Howeitat tribe.

p 203 [tr ed p 222] - 'Auda was very simply dressed, northern fashion, in white cotton with a red Mosul head-cloth. He might be over fifty, and his black hair was streaked with white; but he was still strong and straight, loosely built, spare, and as active as a much younger man. His face was magnificent in its lines and hollows. He had large eloquent eyes, like black velvet in richness. His forehead was low and broad, his nose very high and sharp, powerfully hooked: his mouth rather large and mobile: his beard and moustaches had been trimmed to a point in Howeitat style, with the lower jaw shaven underneath.'

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