View of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling ... Size:large

View of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling ... Size:largeView of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party loading a camel during their journey through the Empty Quarter (Rub' al Khali) from Jaladah plain to the Bani Ma'arid sands. 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.

The man wears a khanjar (dagger) on a cartridge belt over his thobe (shirt) and a tied ghutra (headscarf)

View of an escarpment

north of Al-Saum

View of Wilfred Thesiger's party making camp at Furai well in Sharqiyah Sands

Building at Seiyun with decorative stone railings

half in shadow

armlets (minyonge) and bead necklaces (tik ng’ut) is very evident

which sits below a high plateau in the background

View of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party resting in sand dunes during their journey from the Ramlat Unayq

The young man wears a patterned ghutra (headscarf) topped with an 'agal (head rope) and a thobe (long shirt) cinched with a cartridge belt

View of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party in the Uruq az Zayza sands in the Empty Quarter (Rub' al Khali)

with a snow-capped mountain in the distance