Portrait of two members of ... Frame:gold

Portrait of two members of ... Frame:goldPortrait of two members of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party riding camels through the Jiddat al Harasis during the party's journey from Boi well to Yisub 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.

View of an Arab man standing in a field of waist high grain in the city of Seiyun

Palm trees grow all around

Railings and spires run along the roof edges

preparing ochre

View of a member of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party leading a camel through 'Uruq ash Shaybah sands in the Empty Quarter (Rub' al Khali)

Identified over the years variously as a tiger

three of which are wearing hoods

In the background small tufts of vegetation dot sand dunes that rise into rolling ridges and peaks in the distance

A canoe is tied to its stern

In the middle distance Wilfred Thesiger's Bedouin companions trek in a line with their camels along the slope of a large dune

couched in the Al Dhafra sands during the party's journey to Baynunah

View of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party trekking through the region of Kidan plains (Suhul al Kidan) or Al Batin sands in the Empty Quarter (Rub' al Khali)