View out across trees and ... Special Orders

View out across trees and ... Special OrdersView out across trees and bushes growing in Wadi Andhur at Andhur spring. Camels belonging to Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party wander in the wadi bed in search of grazing. 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.

one and two storey buildings line the shore in the Shindagha district

'Amair bin 'Omar's face is shaded from the sun by his ghutra (headscarf) which is wrapped closely around his head

lead camels on foot through the dunes

two of Wilfred Thesiger's canoe-boys

with a laden donkey (burro) in the foreground

Steep rock walls rise up on either side of the path

He wears a thobe (long shirt) topped with a cartridge belt and has a rifle slung under his left arm

a dry river bed

In the background trees grow in the sand alongside a few 'arish huts made from palm fronds

View of men unloading dhows (sailboats) on the Corniche in the town of Abu Dhabi

View of multi-storeyed buildings at Shongopavi pueblo on Second Mesa

Portrait of two teenaged boys of the Qara tribe sitting on the ground in the Wadi Darbat