View of Sabya in the ... Size:medium

View of Sabya in the ... Size:mediumView of Sabya in the background. In the foreground a camel is turning a press for sesame seeds. The press consists of a large mortar in which a pestle is rotated. 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.

fill the landscape to the far horizon

In the distance beyond dry vegetation lies in the sand

and are well supplied with stone implements

View of the prow of Wilfred Thesiger's tarada (sheikh's canoe)

In the foreground a woman stands in the sand surrounded by piles of baggage

taken during Wilfred Thesiger's journey from Abu Dhabi to Al Ain

He still wears the black skin cloak

Portrait of a girl of the Wahiba Bedouin at Buraymah well in the Wadi Halfayn

View of the limestone cliffs of Jebel Hafeet [Jabal Hafit] mountain

One of the men is riding his camel down the dune

View of Wilfred Thesiger's party resting beneath a tall tree in the Wadi Shalhamit

mostly bare of vegetation