Thesiger's party at Dhiby well Afghanistan

Thesiger's party at Dhiby well AfghanistanView of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party at Dhiby well in the Empty Quarter (Rub' al Khali). 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.

Square arches form a long canopy in front of a line of rooms flanking a wide empty courtyard

Rain clouds gathering in the sky

In the far distance beyond small shrubs and bushes grow on a vast expanse of sand

View of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party resting beside a dune in the Ramlat ar Rabbad sands

with buffaloes swimming in the water in the foreground

In the foreground small tents and donkeys

A vast barren field stretches from the foreground into the near distance

Four falconers holding peregrine falcons sit on their camels in a vast expanse of flat sand dotted with tufts of qassis (sedge) and other vegetation

A sand dune fills the background

In the foreground two men adjust the load on a donkey

Portrait of three young Samburu men

which lie on the shore