View of two boys standing ... Thesiger Collection

View of two boys standing ... Thesiger CollectionView of two boys standing amongst beached dhows (sailboats) on the shoreline in Kuwait City. In the foreground two boys stand in front of a number of small dhows sitting on the beach. Behind them large booms, Kuwaiti built trading vessels, sit on the shore in the background. 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 Bedouin man in Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party trekking in the Ramlat ar Rabbad sands

In the foreground steep barren slopes run down into a ravine

View of a member of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party leading two camels through the Empty Quarter (Rub' al Khali)

ride camels across a flat trough between two parallel chains of low dunes

in the Persian Gulf near Bahrain

gathered for a circumcision ceremony

and Merzik) and their mother

Camels in the background

The fort has large round watchtowers at each corner of the fort and a walled trench that runs around its exterior

View of Wilfred Thesiger's party making camp on a sabkha

The near camel is loaded with a camel litter

continue to the horizon in the far distance