View of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling ... Frame:black

View of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling ... Frame:blackView of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party at a shallow creek in the Wadi Tayyah, near 'Aqabat ash Sha'ar pass. The men stand beside their heavily loaded camels at the edge of a shallow creek in a gravelly wadi. 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 young boy wearing a large check patterned headscarf sits in the centre

sheer-sided dune massifs

Portrait of Sheikh Salim bin Tamtaim of the Beit Kathir tribe

Close up portrait of a porter

View of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party stopping at a small village in the Al Ghamid tribal region during their journey from Al Makhwah to the village of Thurayban

carrying pottery vessels on their backs

View of snow-covered mountains

Three camels stand on the right in a group

In the distance beyond trees grow in a valley between large fields

donkeys and other livestock in a large square

In the foreground a large shelter made from plant material sits alongside a number of square

and carries a camel stick