Thesiger with bin Ghabaisha Type:stretched canvas

Thesiger with bin Ghabaisha Type:stretched canvasPortrait of Salim bin Ghabaisha and Thesiger. Thesiger has a dagger in his belt, and Salim bin Ghabaisha is holding a rifle. 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 left distance a large enclave of 'arish huts and enclosures made from palm fronds sit below tall buildings

In the foreground an oarsman rows a covered abra filled with passengers

holding a rifle across his lap

which served as the old British Legation buildings in Addis Ababa (prior to the construction of a new building in 1910-11)

with several men standing behind them

a falconer in Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan's hunting party

In the far left background another member of the party stands beside a bare bush

View of a balam (flat-bottomed boat) under sail on the River Euphrates

where a ridge of low dunes borders the flat along the horizon

taken in 1949

holding a peregrine falcon on one arm

In the foreground Salim bin Ghabaisha (right) rides his camel across the top of a sand ridge behind a baggage camel