View of Wilfred Thesiger's party ... Frame:gold

View of Wilfred Thesiger's party ... Frame:goldView of Wilfred Thesiger's party watering camels at a well in the Wadi al 'Ayn. In the foreground one of Wilfred Thesiger's Bedouin companions pours a bag of water into a trough, at which three camels are drinking. In the right background Hamad [also known as Hamad al Mahri], a tribesman of the Mahra Bedouin, stands behind the camels, looking into the right distance. Due to the nature of these images, prints will reproduce any signs of age, wear or

In the background the sea is choppy

are attached to the huts

and a third barjeel is visible in the right background

Wilfred Thesiger's Bedouin travelling party watering their camels at Makhari well

Group portrait of male spectators lined up to watch a dance at a circumcision ceremony in An Namas

Close up standing portrait of a Baluchi porter

three of whom are standing holing poling sticks

a samurai and officer on the 1862 Takenouchi mission to Europe

Portrait of a man

wind-rippled dunes

head and in his ears

View of a high dune in Al Batin sands in the Empty Quarter (Rub' al Khali)