Thesiger Collection

View of men dancing at a circumcision ceremony, with a group of women in the foreground watching them.Due to the nature of these images, prints will reproduce any signs of...

Portrait of a man, a herder, standing, holding a spear, with a herd of cattle around him, and hills in the distance.Due to the nature of these images, prints will...

View of a woman constructing a house.Due to the nature of these images, prints will reproduce any signs of age, wear or damage that occurred before they were archived by...

Portrait of a woman, standing amidst a group of children; she is wearing heavy metal jewellery around her neck and on her arms.Due to the nature of these images, prints...

Group portrait of women, standing and sitting, in a boma (village), a settlement comprising several households in the same enclosure.Due to the nature of these images, prints will reproduce any...

View of a woman building a house.Due to the nature of these images, prints will reproduce any signs of age, wear or damage that occurred before they were archived by...

George Coryton, the Governor of Upper Nile Province, with a lion Thesiger shot in the Western Nuer District. Thesiger wrote that he was 'a tall man in obviously hard condition,...

Coronation procession in Addis Ababa for Emperor Haile Selassie, 1930.Due to the nature of these images, prints will reproduce any signs of age, wear or damage that occurred before they...

View of the Nile paddle-steamer Kereri, which served as the floating headquarters of the District Commissioner of the Western Nuer District.Due to the nature of these images, prints will reproduce...

Interior view of one of the tukuls, or round thatched huts, which served as the old British Legation buildings in Addis Ababa (prior to the construction of a new building...

View of rocky terrain in the Jabal Meidob hills, with a camel walking in the foreground.Due to the nature of these images, prints will reproduce any signs of age, wear...

A lake at Ounianga Kebir with cliffs and palm trees on the shore.Due to the nature of these images, prints will reproduce any signs of age, wear or damage that...

Portrait of Wilfred Thesiger, standing outside the new British Legation building, holding the horns of a mountain nyala shot by his father.Due to the nature of these images, prints will...

Group portrait of Afar (Asaimara Danakil) warriors.Due to the nature of these images, prints will reproduce any signs of age, wear or damage that occurred before they were archived by...

View of tents at Wilfred Thesiger's camp at the Awash Station.Due to the nature of these images, prints will reproduce any signs of age, wear or damage that occurred before...

Group portrait of Wilfred Thesiger's Awash expedition party, including Thesiger himself (seated), Omar Ibrahim (standing behind him, wearing a turban and shorts), who was Thesiger's Somali headman on the expedition,...

View of men on horseback at the Feast of the Throne, the annual festival marking the accession of Morocco's ruler, with a crowd of people gathered in foreground, and the...

View of four carved wooden figures marking a Konso grave. The effigies represent the dead man, flanked by his wife and killed enemies.Due to the nature of these images, prints...

View of Wilfred Thesiger's expedition party crossing the Awash River, with laden camels in the foreground.Due to the nature of these images, prints will reproduce any signs of age, wear...

View of a felucca (sailing boat) under sail on the Nile River.Due to the nature of these images, prints will reproduce any signs of age, wear or damage that occurred...