Wilfred Thesiger's party camping at ... Images of Wilfred Thesiger

Wilfred Thesiger's party camping at ... Images of Wilfred ThesigerWilfred Thesiger's party camping at Mudayy. 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.

pulling on a rope to draw water at Manwakh well

Three dune ridges

Woman in centre is wearing a distinctive style of headdress

Wilfred Thesiger stands at the centre (third from left) holding a camel stick

which are drinking water from a hawd

down a softly sloping dune

In the background people wait beside the well while two men use ropes and pulleys to get water from the well

a Fitaurari (or commander of the spearhead)

Wilfred Thesiger's party watering camels in the Wadi Halfayn

A man wearing a taqiyah cap and a light coloured thobe (long shirt) stands in the remains of a demolished building surrounded by houses

a Boran elder

In the near distance tufts of vegetation grow in sand rippled by small waves of secondary dunes