View of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling ... Sue Johnson

View of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling ... Sue JohnsonView of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party resting in Al 'Aradh in the Empty Quarter (Rub' al Khali). Two men sit on camels in the foreground. In the background an area of rock rises above the sand. 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.

Tall multi-storey buildings fronted with wooden balconies line the street

A boy of the Humum Bedouin

He wears a waistcoat over his thobe (shirt) and a thick black 'agal (head rope) over his ghutra (headscarf)

The man on the left is wearing a curved dagger

View of tall mud buildings in the town of Al-Saum

In the left background a few wind towers (barjeel) rise from the rooftops of buildings behind the fort

In the distance scattered dots of vegetation grow on sand dunes

left sticking out of the ground while their owners dance at a circumcision ceremony

In the distance beyond a few other buildings are visible on a far rise

Behind him a number of camels drink from cloth-lined trough dug into the sand

his arms resting on his legs

two men ride their camels