A river at Fughmah with ... Africa 2

A river at Fughmah with ... Africa 2A river at Fughmah with a mountain in the background. 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.

described only a few years later as virtually uninhabited ('almost extinct')

View of an Arab man standing in a field of waist high grain in the city of Seiyun

View of 'arish huts next to Al Fahidi fort in the Bastakiya quarter of old Dubai

taken in the sands near Al Ain

camel blankets and other gear lying in the sand

Silver butter lamps and other offerings surround the shrine

Wilfred Thesiger's Bedouin companions walk with their camels along a slight slope towards far dunes

In the right background three of Wilfred Thesiger's Bedouin companions stand at the top of a high sand dune rippled by the wind

He wears a belt over his thobe (shirt) and headscarf topped with a braided 'agal (head rope)

A smiling man stands in the central foreground

rests at the bottom of a large dune next to his camel

In the foreground a man pours water into a hawd