Wilfred Thesiger's party filling water-skins ... Size:large

Wilfred Thesiger's party filling water-skins ... Size:largeWilfred Thesiger's party filling water skins at a well in the Wadi 'Andam, west of Qabil al Bu Said village. Salim bin Kabina, a tribesman of the Bayt Imani lineage of Rashid Bedouin, stands in the well at the far left. Two Wahiba tribesman, a man and an older boy, stand at the centre beside the well. 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

View of a peregrine falcon (shahin) killing its prey

In the foreground a man in a loincloth stands in the midst of a busy market

View of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party trekking through the Bani Hilal tribal area near Jabal Sharif

Abdullah bin Maiqal stands in the foreground

rocky mountains rise above the sands

holding a peregrine falcon on a mangalah (cuff) on his arm

In the foreground people gather around market stalls selling woven baskets

in the Wadi Ghudun

Close up portrait of a tribesman of the Duru Bedouin near Al Hubi village

Portrait of three boys at Shibam

dancing a war dance

View of Lake Turkana (with South Island just visible)