View of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling ... Size:medium

View of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling ... Size:mediumView of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party resting beside a tree in the Ramlat al Ghirbaniyat (Ghirbaniyat Sands). In the distance rolling dunes continue to the far horizon. 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.

Palm trees grow all around

In the foreground customers mill amongst traders sitting on the ground with large bags of merchandise

stretching below a vast cloudless sky

The man on the left holds his camel stick in the air with his right hand

A few men stand with a group of camels waiting for water at the entrance to the sink hole

View of Wilfred Thesiger's party's camels grazing during the party's journey from Khawr bin 'Atarit well in the Ghanim Sands to the Ramlat al Ghafah

including laden donkeys and three men following them

In the foreground a man carrying a young boy and two women stand in a narrow street lined with shops

View of the unfinished structure of a raba (house)

probably photographed at a market in Nyanza

One of them is wearing a hat made from palm fronds

which are cultivated by local Arab villagers