View of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling ... Size:small

View of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling ... Size:smallView of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party in the Uruq az Zayza sands in the Empty Quarter (Rub' al Khali). Two camels are grazing on an abal [Calligonum comosum] bush. A man sits on one of the camels. 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.

a patterned loincloth

A group of men stand around a pile of hay or grass on the shore in front of a moored dhow (sailboat) covered by a large cloth canopy

Portrait of a man (named Lobsang Namgyal)

View of the Blue Nile Gorge

Opposite him a tribesman of the Wahiba Bedouin

To the right of the well a number camels are waiting for water

People walk through the streets below

during the party's journey from Wadi Shalhamit to Wadi Khawat

He holds a hooded peregrine falcon on a mangalah (cuff) on his left arm

In the near distance two men sit beneath a large tree in the midst of a vast bare expanse of sand

and a camel stick in his other hand

sit along the far Bur Dubai side of Dubai Creek