Mountains Special Orders

Mountains Special OrdersView of mountains, with members of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party walking with laden mules in the foreground. 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.

Salim bin Ghabaisha crouches on a rocky outcrop looking into the far left distance

Muhammad bin Al Jabari

four adults and boy

Further beyond more booms and dhows sail along the horizon

View of one of the dhows (sailboats) on which Wilfred Thesiger sailed through the Abu Dhabi islands with Sheikh Hazaa bin Sultan Al Nahyan and his retainers

View of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party in the desert of the Empty Quarter (Rub' al Khali)

Fields separated by rock walls stretch from the foreground to the near distance

Portrait of a group of men and boys standing in a crowd at Suq al Sabt market below Jabal Mana'

a rifle and blankets are scattered on the ground under the tree

His hands are clasped together in his lap on top of his dark bisht (robe) which he wears over a light coloured thobe (long shirt)

View of dhows (sailboats) beached on the shore at Dubai Creek

A peregrine falcon perches on a carved wooden wakir (block) staked in the sand