View of Wilfred Thesiger's party ... Type:unstretched canvas

View of Wilfred Thesiger's party ... Type:unstretched canvasView of Wilfred Thesiger's party visiting a village in the foothills west of Batha' Badiyah. In the near distance a member of the party stands in front of a building with a large arched entrance and no door. The building is square and made of stone. 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.

near Al Qabil

In the left background more dhows sit in the water

An Arab man wearing a thobe (long shirt) and ghutra (headscarf) stand in the central foreground in front of three saddled camels

In the background a number of hadh (Cornulaca monacantha) bushes grow below a long dune which rises along the background

In the far background a large dune rises in the distance

with the camel (named Ghazala) which he rode during his second crossing of the Empty Quarter (Rub' al Khali)

Portrait of an elderly man of the Bayt Kathir Bedouin at Qafa well in Wadi 'Aydim

In the background small tufts of vegetation grow across a large expanse of flat sand bordered by a line of trees in the far distance

A peregrine falcon perches in profile on a carved wooden wakir (block) staked in the sand

In the far distance three palm trees grow behind the walls of Al Jahili fort

standing in the Al Khatam sands south of Al Ain

captured in a humorous moment in relaxed fashion despite the posed formality of the group