View of Wilfred Thesiger's party ... Jacques-Philippe Potteau

View of Wilfred Thesiger's party ... Jacques-Philippe PotteauView of Wilfred Thesiger's party trekking with their camels in the Ghanim Sands during the party's journey from Mughshin Oasis to Khawr bin 'Atarit well. 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.

The large stone building is covered in plaster and has large wooden lintels over the door and window

Officials can be seen entering the courtyard to take their seats in the background on the left

View of men gathered around several large bundles of giant reeds

] he has had many interesting interviews with the army officers and explorers who have visited successively his pueblo

Portrait of a boy of the Humum Bedouin

Portrait of a young man (named Yasin bin Anad)

stands next to a well pouring water into a mud trough

a waistcoat over his thobe (ankle-length shirt) and has a silver embossed dagger (khanjar) at his waist

He wears a loose ghutra (headscarf) tied with an 'agal (head rope) and a light coloured thobe (shirt)

In the far distance sparse vegetation grows on a distant sand flat and low wispy clouds stretch across the sky

The metal cross on the building was given to the community by Emperor John IV

likely in the Wadi al Ghabah