View of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling ... Type:art print

View of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling ... Type:art printView of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party crossing a gravel plain near the wells in Wadi Shalhamit, twenty miles due west of Habarut. In the distance beyond low hills run along the far horizon. 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.

Wilfred Thesiger and his men stayed with Muhammad and his extended family in the Ramlat ar Rabbad for a few days during their first crossing of the Empty Quarter (Rub' al Khali) in December 1946

towards distant dunes

Portrait of Wilfred Thesiger's sailing companions on a dhow (sailboat) in the Abu Dhabi islands

View of two children standing in a street in the town of Al Mukalla

View (looking southward from Tewa pueblo) of Sichomovi pueblo (in the middle distance) and Walpi pueblo (in the far distance)

Full length seated portrait of Ahmed

a young tribesman of the Bayt Gidad lineage of Bayt Kathir Bedouin

On the right a large thorn tree grows on the rock

Standing half length portrait of two boys at Al Ma'ala harbour in the city of Aden

Looking down on part of the 13th Dalai Lama's tomb in the Potala Palace from an upper gallery

Some of the houses of the village are erected on the tops of others in consequence of the heaping sands

on which one of the urns sits