Portrait of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling ... Thesiger CollectionPortrait of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party watering camels at a well at the southern end of Jabal Hafit (Jebel Hafeet). 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 hadh (Cornulaca monacantha) bushes grow scattered across the sands behind him
The building on the left has a box made from woven palms (possibly a latrine)
View of juniper trees growing on either side of a gravel road near the village of Sawda
In the foreground a large sand flat dotted with a few tufts of vegetation sits below a high sand dune
View of Wilfred Thesiger's party watering camels in the Al Batin sands near Liwa oasis
A large tree grows over the well
Standing half length portrait of two herd boys from the Al Kathir Bedouin tribe in the Wadi Jarsis in Jabal Qara mountains
View of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party camping in the shade of two trees during their journey from the Ramlat Unayq
Seated group portrait of Wahiba Bedouin at a camp in the Wadi Halfayn
The tent behind the group is clad in striped woven blankets and large palm mats
Two storey buildings fronted with wooden canopies line the square
Two hold bows and blunted arrows with which they can shoot small birds that are then stuffed and worn hanging from the back of the neck
