View of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling ... Type:unstretched canvas

View of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling ... Type:unstretched canvasView of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party trekking in the Uruq al Awarik sands of 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.

a cluster of 'arish huts

View of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party resting in the Jaub depression in desert of the Empty Quarter (Rub' al Khali)

a desiccated tree grows in the sand

A long buck-skin strip about four inches wide which is attached to the moccasin is wrapped around the leg nearly to the knee

Seated from left to right: Dagg

View of the stern of a baghala (large boat

Seated group portrait of members of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party with tribesmen of the Wahiba Bedouin in the Wadi Halfayn

The men are seated in a line on the ground

The man on the left leans on his rifle

with the Sangre de Cristo mountains in the distance

In the foreground a number of couched camels rest in a large square in front of Al Kathiri Palace

An older man with a long bushy grey beard and short hair sits in the sand with his arm resting on his knee