View of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling ... Africa

View of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling ... AfricaView of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party trekking across a flat plain in the desert north of Shisr 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 Museum.

Behind it a man adjusts the saddle on a camel

hauling on a rope

The camels are grazing on the ghaf [Prosopis cineraria] tree

A marakh bush can be seen at the right

In the foreground a number of young date palms grow on a sand flat alongside small salt bushes

Portrait of four boys at Baydayn village in Wadi Hali

in the Wadi Hali

He wears a khanjar (dagger) on a belt over his thobe (shirt) and an embroidered headscarf

In the foreground three men fly flags at the bow

riding a camel with a peregrine falcon in the Al Khatam sands near Jebel Hafeet (Jabal Hafit)

View of a crowd of traders and buyers at the Suq al Khamis [Thursday market] in the town of Najran

Portrait of a toddler standing with three older Wahiba Bedouin boys at Buraymah well in the Wadi Halfayn