Portrait of Wilfred Thesiger with ... Frame:none

Portrait of Wilfred Thesiger with ... Frame:nonePortrait of Wilfred Thesiger with a Bedouin man at an encampment at the village of Ghayl bin Yamayn. The two men are crouched in a sandy area in front of two trees, while behind them a number of men mill about. 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.

Behind him is a well

looking at those sitting on the platform

A falconer wearing a ghutra (headscarf) and a thobe (long shirt) topped with a cartridge belt kneels atop a tall camel

View of a young man lying on the ground having his hair dressed by another man

and his long curly hair hangs down to his shoulders

A man wearing a thobe (long shirt) and ghutra (headscarf) stands in a dry riverbed in a rocky valley

frowning as he pokes at a small kettle with a piece of wood

View of trees growing on a sandy flat in the Wadi Hali near the village of Baydayn

One of Wilfred Thesiger's Bedouin companions attends to baggage loaded on a couched camel at the right

He is wearing flowers in his hair

View of a camel descending a steep dune face in the Bani Ma'arid sands of the Empty Quarter (Rub' al Khali)

A tall house painted black and white with ornamental stonework on the roof