View of Wilfred Thesiger's Bedouin ... Frame:white

View of Wilfred Thesiger's Bedouin ... Frame:whiteView of Wilfred Thesiger's Bedouin travelling party watering camels at Ayun spring. 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.

In the distance beyond Al Muwaiji Fort is visible across a vast expanse of flat sand

View of Wilfred Thesiger's party riding camels across a sand flat in the Ramlat as Sahmah

In the foreground rope lies on the ground

View (looking eastward) of buildings surrounding the main plaza of Sandia pueblo

while on the opposite right side it slopes softly upward

Six people stand in a line in the sand

with three men standing in the foreground

Beyond distant dune massifs with deeply ridged sides sit along the edge of the flat

Behind him a few camels are couched in the sand

In the near distance a man walks across shallow water towards a man in a rowboat waiting on the right

with the sacred Taos mountains visible in the distance behind them

In the left distance a large enclave of 'arish huts and enclosures made from palm fronds sit in the sand