View of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling ... Iraq

View of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling ... IraqView of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party watering their camels at a well in the Hejaz foothills of the upper Wadi Hali. 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.

Large numbers of people walk by carrying baskets on their heads

behind a ripe of rope

A rowboat floats on the right

A man with a trim moustache stands against a wall

a few couched camels and a second resting falcon

A falconer wearing a thobe (long shirt) and a ghutra (headscarf) toped with a dark 'agal (head rope) rides side-saddle on a camel facing into the right distance (only the camel's torso is in the frame)

Two of the men are on a trunk

Footprints mark the sand in the foreground at the far right

In the far right distance lies a vast flat plain dotted with sparse vegetation

at Manwakh well

View of houses at Khaibar

View of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party trekking through Al Dhafra sands during their journey across the Empty Quarter (Rub' al Khali) from Dhibi well to Al Batin sands