View of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling ... Alfred Maudslay

View of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling ... Alfred MaudslayView of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party trekking through the Ramlat ar Rabbad sands. Three of Wilfred Thesiger's Bedouin companions lead camels through an area of low sand dunes. The first two men walk in front of their camels, while the third man rides his camel. 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.

In the foreground trees grow amongst farm fields

In the distance the dune rises to a high shadowed crest

Members of one of the noble families of Lhasa

View of a distinctive form of large sand dune (known as qaid) in the Sahma sands

with cattle (and buffaloes) in the background

Mountain landscape in the region above Wadi Kidyut

Potala from the west with scrub vegetation oin the foreground

holding a peregrine falcon on one arm

Six men kneel in the sand in a semicircle around a campfire

pulling a thick rope

In the background the mountain Jabal Thahran

Sertreng ceremony (tshogs mchod ser spreng) on the 30th day of the 2nd Tibetan month