Wilfred Thesiger's party in the ... George Dixon Aked

Wilfred Thesiger's party in the ... George Dixon AkedWilfred Thesiger's party in the Wadi Jarsis, a wadi in the Jabal Qara mountains. A number of men are loading their camels. 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.

a thobe (long shirt) and a wraparound skirt

On the left two women sit in the shade beside an 'arish hut

Muhammad al Auf lifts a saddle and saddle pad onto a couched camel

In the foreground a boy

Seated group portrait of members of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party with tribesmen of the Wahiba Bedouin in the Wadi Halfayn

In the far distance mountains rise in the background

He wears a plaid cloth hanging across his shoulders over his thobe (shirt) and a headscarf topped with an 'agal (head rope)

View of salt bushes growing on dunes in Al Batin sands in the Empty Quarter (Rub' al Khali)

Behind them a tent made of woven palm mats has been erected in the sand

Side view of the bow of a j

Seated profile portrait of Salim bin Kabina

View of a castellated fortress at Gondar