Wilfred Thesiger's party watering camels ... Type:unstretched canvas

Wilfred Thesiger's party watering camels ... Type:unstretched canvasWilfred Thesiger's party watering camels in a river at Fughmah with a mountain 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.

Scattered patches of grass grow on the plain

View of a boom (large boat

The falconer has a short dark beard and wears a khanjar (dagger) on a belt over his light coloured thobe (long shirt)

A three camels stand among the crowd

In the nearer foreground a second pair of sailors holds another wooden oar

View of a porch of the monolithic rock-hewn church of Mariam at Lalibela

View of Mount Kenya with a group of men in the foreground looking up to the peak

A vast expanse of low rolling dunes spreads out across the distance before him

Prominent in the foreground of the photograph are two wagons with horses in harness: the smaller vehicle

In the distance beyond the square stone Shindagha watchtower rises high above nearby 'arish huts and beached dhows (sailboats)

In the left background behind him two small boys play in the sand in front of huts erected in the shade of tall trees

while behind him two men work next to a standing camel