Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan Pakistan

Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan PakistanSheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan sitting in front of a tent with Tahnun bin Muhammad and two boys. 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.

View of a boat carrying a load of fodder

View of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party at a well in Al Batin sands during their journey across the Empty Quarter (Rub' al Khali) from Al Dhafra sands to Liwa oasis

one of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling companions

Water fills the foreground

This photograph was taken by Omar Ibrahim

In background small shrubs and bushes grow on a flat expanse of sand sitting below a sky dotted with a few fluffy clouds

In the central distance the square stone Shindagha watchtower rises high above nearby buildings

flanked by two displays of markhor (Capra falconeri

Behind him is a pile of blankets

Thesiger's Somali headman on his Awash expedition

wearing a lion's mane headdress

with Salim bin Kabina carrying fodder for his camel in the foreground