Portrait of a man taken ... Jacques-Philippe Potteau

Portrait of a man taken ... Jacques-Philippe PotteauPortrait of a man taken at a village in Bal Qarn tribal territory in the region between Jabal Harfa and the Wadi Shaybanah. 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.

View of Abis village on the Hejaz plateau

Further behind on the left one of Wilfred Thesiger's Bedouin companions stands on a clump of qassis

View of tents at an encampment in the Qandil range of mountains

while behind him the sky is clear and empty of clouds

Stern view of a boom

and all are wearing headscarves

The rope is attached to a bucket which the man in the centre (Salim bin Kabina

A man with two camels is riding along a path

Monk turning prayer wheels enclosed in a chorten on the lingkhor pilgrimage route around Lhasa

View of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party in the Batin sands south of Liwa oasis

Behind them a crowd of men sit beneath a large dhow beached on wooden piles at the side of Dubai Creek

going to market to buy chickens