Setting out from Awash Station Type:stretched canvas

Setting out from Awash Station Type:stretched canvasView of Wilfred Thesiger's expedition party setting out from the Awash Station at the start of his 1933 4 Awash expedition. 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.

He is holding a length of rope in both hands

in the Persian Gulf between Dubai Emirate and Bahrain Island

while in the far distance a low rocky outcrop runs along the horizon

paddling it forward

View of two men standing in a boat loaded with a cargo of reed mats

View of buildings at Shibam in the Hadhramaut

dig out a well while a few camels wait expectantly nearby

Group portrait of five peregrine falcons belonging to Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan's hunting party in the Al Khatam sands near Al Ain

At the back of the dhow a cloth covered awning is blown by the wind

Behind him the large wooden door is decorated with brass strips and heavy rivets

Some of the men also wear khanjars (daggers) on cartridge belts over their thobe

leading three camels behind him