View of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling ... Images of Sheikh Zayed

View of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling ... Images of Sheikh ZayedView of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party resting beside bushes in the Ramlat al Ghirbaniyat (Ghirbaniyat Sands). 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.

This image was taken during Wilfred Thesiger's May 10-18

fill the foreground

formed from bundles of giant reeds

In the background a tall square building made of stone sits next to the street

In the background behind them a young girl in a black abaya walks towards a group of camels

This is a full length portrait with the central figure in focus against a blurred background

The older boy wears a western waistcoat over his thobe (long shirt)

View of two women from the Bayt Gidad lineage of Bayt Kathir Bedouin tending goats in the Wadi Haluf

Behind the boy a grove of date palms grows behind a mud wall

Portrait of a Hazara boy

In the far background a breakwater shelters the shoreline

the 'people of Zuni possess about seventy-five of these birds which are kept only for their feathers