Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party camping ... Thesiger Collection

Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party camping ... Thesiger CollectionWilfred Thesiger's travelling party camping amongst large bushes in the Wadi Animrit. 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.

made from palm leaves

View of a group of Mahra Bedouin watering their camels at Habarut wells

which rises high above the mosque

and is looking into the far left distance

View of a man standing with three camels in Al Ain oasis

A hooded peregrine falcon perches on a mangalah (cuff) on his near hand and he holds a camel stick in his other hand

Portrait of a young Bedouin man with a camel caravan outside the city of Al Mukalla

Portrait of a boy of the Bani Malik tribe in the upper Wadi Damad

The houses are two and three storeys high and have small windows

A single storey building is visible in the background on the left

Equipment and supplies lie scattered around them

In the near central distance three Arab men relax in the sand under a tree