A large building at Seiyun. ... Special Orders

A large building at Seiyun. ... Special OrdersA large building at Seiyun. 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.

Carved and painted panelled walls in background

Behind him a second tree grows

In the left foreground a falconer wearing a cap and a light coloured thobe (long shirt) bends over next to a standing camel

with Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party in the foreground

The falcon's body is turned slightly to the left

It is wearing the traditional form of guiding harness

with Lawi standing on the verandah in the foreground

Behind them on the left two boys stand watching the men

Muhammad and his sons hosted Wilfred Thesiger's party at their encampment for a number of days in December 1946 during Wilfred Thesiger's first crossing of the Empty Quarter (Rub' al Khali)

View of the northern escarpment of the Simien range of mountains

Group portrait of a three boys and a young man riding a donkey at Ad Darb well

the Emir of the Shahran tribes