Muhammad bin al Jabari Africa 2

Muhammad bin al Jabari Africa 2Portrait of a man (named Muhammad bin al Jabari), one of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party. 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.

being crossed by a member of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party

with Mawenzi peak on the left and Kibo peak on the right

rest in the sun

View of a member of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party sitting on the crest of a sand dune during the party's journey from Wadi al 'Ayn to the Ramlat al Ghirbaniyat (Ghirbaniyat Sands)

This image was taken between December 20

Wilfred Thesiger wears a cartridge belt on leather suspenders over his white thobe (shirt) and a plain headscarf topped with an 'agal (head rope)

Behind them trees grow atop a low sand dune

He also carries a rifle on his left shoulder

where a ridge of low dunes borders the flat along the horizon

View of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party in the Batin sands south of Liwa oasis

View of Wilfred Thesiger's expedition party setting out from the Awash Station at the start of his 1933-4 Awash expedition

The man on the left is Hamdo Ouga