View of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling ... Size:small

View of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling ... Size:smallView of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party in the Uruq az Zayza sands in the Empty Quarter (Rub' al Khali). 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.

and strings of pearls

Behind them a thick cluster of salt bushes grows along the edge of a large salt flat (sabkha) between two ridges of high dunes

At the right

stands in the far left foreground

Sheikh Mubarak bin Mohammed Al Nahyan and some of their retainers in Al Ain

Distant view of a boom

one of whom carries the head of a Barbary sheep (shot in the Jabal Meidob hills) over his shoulders

a young tribesman of the Bayt Imani lineage of Rashid Bedouin

Crowds in street

In the Musjid-i-Juma mosque at Isfahan

View through the Siq gorge of the rock-cut façade of the Al-Khazna (Treasury) at Petra

carrying a knife in his waistband and a rifle over his left shoulder