View of water sellers loading ... Miscellaneous

View of water sellers loading ... MiscellaneousView of water sellers loading their donkeys with filled water skins in front of a building in Kuwait City. At this time fresh water was imported to Kuwait by boat. 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 crowd of shoppers and traders from the 'Amara tribe at the Suq ath Thulutha market

Muhammad hosted Wilfred Thesiger and his men at this encampment for a number of days during Wilfred Thesiger's first crossing of the Empty Quarter (Rub' al Khali)

In the near distance three of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling companions are walking along a road across a rocky hillside

just as they appear while carrying water from the well to the house

In the salt flat beyond

A member of Wilfred Thesiger's party

View of the stern of a sambuk (sailboat) beached at Al Ma'ala harbour in the city of Aden

A group of Khawlan Bedouin traders at Suq 'Ayban market under Jabal Fayfa

View of Sahul Bedouin drawing water from one of the Rumah wells

while apertures are made in the other for the head and arms

He is watching the progress of a hippo hunt taking place in a lagoon

one of Wilfred Thesiger's guides and a retainer to Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan