View of Al Kathiri Palace ... Images of Wilfred Thesiger

View of Al Kathiri Palace ... Images of Wilfred ThesigerView of Al Kathiri Palace in Seiyun. Rock markers sit in a graveyard in the foreground. In the distance Al Kathiri Palace rises high above the city. The palace is several storeys tall and has round turrets on the corners of the building. 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.

Mahalhal bin 'Ati

In the far left background two boats bob in the water

stands in the near central distance on a sand ridge rippled by secondary dunes

with a flag overhead and rifles raised

Behind them a vast rocky sand flat stretches into the far horizon

seated on a throne on an ornately carved and painted dais in the Norbu Lingka Palace

Horsemen in ceremonial dress and wearing conical hats with brims carrying banners and standards surmounted by tridents

points his camel stick in the air front of the three men sitting to the right

Portrait of a thirty-four-year-old Japanese man named Saitō Jirōtarō

several of whom are holding rifles

Yapshi Lungdun

View of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party in the Al Batin sands during their journey across the Empty Quarter (Rub' al Khali) from Al Dhafra sands to Liwa oasis