Wilfred Thesiger's party resting under ... Africa 2

Wilfred Thesiger's party resting under ... Africa 2Wilfred Thesiger's party resting under a tree in the Wadi al Jiz', near its junction with Wadi Mahrat. 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 boy with a flock of chickens can be seen in the foreground

View of a man and a boy walking on a street in front of a large fortress or village wall in a town near Rumah wells

Wilfred Thesiger's Bedouin companions trek in a line across a flat expanse of wind-rippled sand

View of Wilfred Thesiger's Bedouin travelling party resting in a sandy wadi

The sands in the foreground are bare except for a few scattered twigs and a lone bush at the right

the carving is now understood by scholars to represent a Cosmic Monster with a mountain on its back

View of a man

In the foreground a large compound of 'arish huts

The tall thin towers have wooden platforms half way up the tower

sitting on rocks on Mount Hendren

the rightmost of which is enclosed behind a palm fence

View of Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan's hawking party setting out in the Khatam sands