Wilfred Thesiger's party crossing a ... Size:small

Wilfred Thesiger's party crossing a ... Size:smallWilfred Thesiger's party crossing a gravel riverbed in Wadi Shalhamit near the Shalhamit wells, twenty miles due west of Habarut. 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.

He wears a plain thobe (long shirt) and a patterned ghutra (headscarf) wrapped closely around his head

View of a caravan of Kandari nomads with loaded camels and mules

Wilfred Thesiger sits on a cloth in the left foreground

In the far distance beyond small shrubs and bushes grow on a vast expanse of sand

Faris Shahin Salah (Thesiger's orderly

View of two people outside a house in the Marshes

The man on the left holds his camel stick in the air with his right hand

Salim bin Kabina (centre left)

The party's camels are grazing on ghaf [Prosopis cineraria] trees

also a tribesman of the Awamir Bedouin

heading into the central distance

Many of them are wearing garlands of herbs in their hair