View of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling ... Iraq

View of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling ... IraqView of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party watering camels at Shisr well. A group of camels stand at the entrance to the sink hole at Shisr, waiting for water. The well at Shisr is located far underground at the bottom of the sink hole. 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.

Portrait of a man and two boys

Yellow hat on his head

View of a man standing in a boat

Salim bin Kabina sits in his saddle with his legs forward

View of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party loading up their camels in the sands near Manwakh well in perpetration for the party's second crossing of the Rub' al Khali (Empty Quarter)

People walking along a track

View of a large herd of goats being led by herders to water at Mouwoligiteng pools near Mount Kulal

View of a man and a boy threshing wheat with a pair of yoked cows

Portrait of sailors rowing a dhow on which Wilfred Thesiger sailed with Sheikh Hazaa bin Sultan Al Nahyan and his retainers

soft volcanic tufa in which thousands of artificial caves have been dug by a preceding race

poling it forward

All three men are tribesmen of the Bayt Imani lineage of Rashid Bedouin