View of a camel standing ... Type:stretched canvas

View of a camel standing ... Type:stretched canvasView of a camel standing in front of a circular hut with a high pointed roof in Ash Shuqaiq village. 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 a member of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party walking across a rocky plain during their journey from the Ramlat Unayq

View of trees growing in walled gardens in the town of Al Hofuf in Al Hasa Oasis

Donkeys carrying heavy loads of wood move through the crowd

View of Wilfred Thesiger's party arriving at the Bani Yas settlement of Dhafir in Liwa oasis

Some of the men wear silver embossed daggers (khanjars) on belts over their shirts (thobe)

In the background traders and shoppers cluster in a large open area

View of Wilfred Thesiger's party standing around a dead cow on a hillside in Jabal Qara

In the central foreground a few men stand on a small dhow tied alongside a much larger kotia

Further beyond

leaning on a poling stick

In the foreground Wilfred Thesiger's Bedouin guides rest in camp in the middle of a grassy down

taken from the (seventeenth-century) castle of Fasilidas