Wilfred Thesiger's party making camp ... Size:large

Wilfred Thesiger's party making camp ... Size:largeWilfred Thesiger's party making camp in the Wadi al 'Ayn. 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.

In the foreground a man in a loincloth stands in the midst of a busy market

In the foreground Sheikh Mubarak bin Mohammed Al Nahyan stands on a dune in front of the encampment

holding a water-vase on the top of the head

The group is heading towards a salt flat (sabkha) below that is dotted with sparse vegetation

Beside him the donkey has been saddled with blankets and a thick sheepskin

In the foreground one man stands in the tide holding a small rowboat

standing with a camel and a falcon in the Al Khatam sands near Al Ain

sits on the far left

Close up portrait of a curly haired boy of the Mahamid lineage of Duru Bedouin

Chapman also refers to the mummers as being very poor and this is possibly evidenced from the small portion of dress visible in this image

Standing group portrait of three Sahul Bedouin men at the Ar Rumhiya wells near Ar Riyadh

In the near distance the two men rest in the shade of a large leafy tree in the midst of a vast expanse of sand dotted with a few clumps of vegetation