Three-quarter length portrait of an ... Images of Wilfred Thesiger

Three-quarter length portrait of an ... Images of Wilfred ThesigerThree quarter length portrait of an Arab man standing in sandy soil at the town of Ash Shuqaiq. 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.

a young man of the Bayt Imani lineage of Rashid Bedouin

Both men wear ghutra (headscarves) topped with agal (head ropes) and khanjar daggers in their ammunition belts

People walking along a track

He is pouring coffee into little cups

A man stands in a vast area of low

which is lined with one storey buildings

In the background a few goats stand beside a trough

sitting on the ground during the party's journey from Wadi Musallim to Wadi Hawshi

In the distance beyond a sand fence has been constructed along a sand ridge

View of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party riding across downs in Al Batin sands during their journey across the Empty Quarter (Rub' al Khali) from Al Dhafra sands to Liwa oasis

In the central foreground a small boat

at his fort in the town of Ras Al Khaimah