View of Wilfred Thesiger's party ... Alfred Maudslay

View of Wilfred Thesiger's party ... Alfred MaudslayView of Wilfred Thesiger's party resting in the Wadi Qinab during the party's journey to Huliyah well. 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.

paddling it forward

a representative of the Imam of Oman

At the far right one of the men looks through binoculars into the left distance

man facing camera

sitting on the ground during the party's journey from Wadi Musallim to Wadi Hawshi

View of a street

grows in the sand

past two and three storey stone buildings fronted with wooden balconies

In the foreground a moored dhow (sailboat) sits in the middle of Dubai Creek

A teenage boy stands to the left of his donkey in front of a high house wall

In the foreground sailors pull a rowboat alongside a moored dhow

with a watch-tower in the distance