Portrait of Salim bin Tamtaim ... Alfred Maudslay

Portrait of Salim bin Tamtaim ... Alfred MaudslayPortrait of Salim bin Tamtaim, a leader in Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party, standing with a tribesman of the Harasis Bedouin at Boi well. Salim bin Tamtaim, a sheikh of the Bayt Ghuwas lineage of Bayt Kathir Bedouin, stands on the left. The two men are standing in front of a cave. 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 number of mats lean against the sides of the hut and lie on the ground in front of the hut

Behind them a field of grass sits below a hill covered with small bushes

View of three men standing in front of a house at a village in Zahran tribal territory

in the region between Bir Thamud well and Huliyah village

Two stone huts topped with straw roofs sit in the midst of aflat plain

a Sunday and therefore a day off for the Mission staff

Nutria 'is within the limits of [the Zuni's] reservation

Nearby piles of coral

Portrait of an elderly man (named Wahu Tota)

In the distance beyond rocky mountains rise above the sands

rest beside large bushes growing in soft sand

lifts a leather bag of water out of a well