Wilfred Thesiger with Awash expedition party Frame:blackGroup portrait of Wilfred Thesiger's Awash expedition party, including Thesiger himself (seated), Omar Ibrahim (standing behind him, wearing a turban and shorts), who was Thesiger's Somali headman on the expedition, and Kassimi (left of Omar, wearing a hat). 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 a line of abra (ferry boats) sitting along the shore of Dubai Creek
The walls of the rightmost tower are incomplete
The well is topped with a wooden frame built from date palm logs
He wears a ghutra (headscarf) wrapped closely around his head and a khanjar (dagger) on a cartridge belt over his coloured thobe (long shirt)
View from behind of a boy standing in the bow of a mashuf (canoe)
while women and a child sit inside the left section
In the far distance beyond rocky mountains rise along the horizon
View of Al Kathiri Palace in Seiyun
a 92-gun vessel of the Royal Naval
View of a member of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party standing in country north of Al Ain/Buraimi oasis in the area between Ramlat Unayq and Jabal Sumeini
Tall towers sit on the far side of the courtyard
On the right a falcon perches on a carved wooden wakir (block) staked in the sand