Thesiger with dead lion Images of Sheikh Zayed

Thesiger with dead lion Images of Sheikh ZayedA portrait of Thesiger sitting on a lion shot by him in Western Nuerland, one of forty lions he shot in southern Sudan. 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.

stands on the right

with a round stone watch-tower in the distance

a large double masted dhow (sailboat) from India

Beyond the near ridge

with mountains in the Karakoram range rising above it at either side

rising up to the great finial

the Regent of Abyssinia (and later the Emperor Haile Selassie)

faces towards the left and carries a rifle under his shoulder

with his wife and other British Legation staff arriving at the palace residence (Gibbi) of the Emperor Menelik

It is dotted with small tufts of vegetation

a member of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party

View of Lake Turkana (formerly called Lake Rudolf) seen from its southern end near Teleki's volcano