View of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling ... Frame:natural

View of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling ... Frame:naturalView of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party in the Raydat as Say'ar. 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 foreground a few goats stand near a cafe in a square

Behind them a group of Wahiba Bedouin are hauling water from the well

Sitting and standing on carpet

He is near the top of the mast

In the near distance five of Wilfred Thesiger's Bedouin companions ride their camels in a line across a vast flat bare expanse of sand

one made from twine

stripping meat from a camel bone

Portrait of a man and a boy from the Bin Maaruf lineage of Sa'ar Bedouin kneeling on the ground at Manwakh well

flat roofed stone buildings

In the further distance one of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling companions

Two small dhows sit alongside a moored boom

On the left a man wades through shallow water