Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party camping ... India

Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party camping ... IndiaWilfred Thesiger's travelling party camping at Kismim Pass in the Jabal Qara mountains. 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.

In the far distance salt bushes grow scattered across a vast salt flat bordered by high dunes

In the right foreground a palm grows on a large sand flat

A boy wearing a light coloured thobe (shirt) and a ghutra (headscarf) stands in front of the stern of a beached badan

Portrait of a tribesman of the Sahul Bedouin hauling water from a well at the Ar Rumhiya wells near Ar Riyadh

with a man standing outside

Portrait of a young man with plaited hair

He wears a silver embossed khanjar (dagger) on a cartridge belt over his coloured thobe (long shirt) and a ghutra (headscarf) wrapped closely around his head

A man sits on a mound of sand

and the Masjid-i Shah mosque visible in the distance

View of a gorge in the Dades valley in the High Atlas range of mountains

Rifles stand muzzle-first in the sand beside him

He is wearing a plain headscarf and a thobe (shirt)