Wilfred Thesiger's party resting in ... Iraq

Wilfred Thesiger's party resting in ... IraqWilfred Thesiger's party resting in 'Uruq ash Shaybah dunes. On the left, a few camels graze on dry bushes. At the right a number of camels are couched. In the background lies a wide flat plain bordered with distant sand dunes. 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.

View of dhows (sailboats) resting in shallow water at the shoreline in Kuwait City

possibly a rowboat

Behind the ridge a cultivated date palm grove grows in a depression

with a lake in the foreground

and ghutra (headscarf) stands on a rock strewn flat

View of a group of men standing with their camels outside Al Muwaiji Fort in Al Ain

and wears an 'agal (head rope) over a patterned ghutra (headscarf) and a light coloured a thobe (shirt)

In the distance beyond them the sand continues to rise in rolling ridges of sand

View of a group of Arab men and women resting in the shade at a sunken garden in the Wadi Fatimah near Mecca

sits holding the head rope of a tall camel standing above him

View of two Bin Maaruf nomads (of the Saar tribe) with two tethered and loaded camels

View of a Manasir Bedouin encampment near Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan's hunting camp in the Al Khatam sands near Al Ain