Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party gathering ... Frame:white

Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party gathering ... Frame:whiteWilfred Thesiger's travelling party gathering water from a well in the Wadi Halfayn. A line of camels wait behind the men. Due to the nature of these images, prints will reproduce any signs of age, wear or damage that occurred before they were archived by the Pitt Rivers Museum.

wearing a ghutra (headscarf) and a T-shirt

In the centre distance a kotia sits in choppy water

Portrait of an Arab boy in the Wadi Amq

Rai al Raqiqa is a tribesman of the Bayt Kathir Bedouin

the 'height of this Indian is six feet two inches

Wilfred Thesiger's Bedouin companions walk alongside their camels in a line across low rolling sands dotted with tufts of vegetation

A crowd of people at the market in Umm al Khashab village in the Wadi Baysh

resting in the sands near Al Ain

The horizontal style of wearing daggers is typical of this region

and in the far distance a number of trees and bushes grow

Steep limestone walls rise on either side of a narrow valley in Jebel Hafeet [Jabal Hafit]

The 'Uruq ash Shaybah sands in the Empty Quarter (Rub' al Khali)