Thesiger Collection

Portrait of a man, a Boran elder, standing, leaning on a staff, with flies covering his face and clothing.Due to the nature of these images, prints will reproduce any signs...

View of the monolithic rock-hewn church of Giorgis at Lalibela, cruciform in shape, with two men standing on the surrounding ground.Due to the nature of these images, prints will reproduce...

Portrait of two moran (warriors), standing.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...

View of Mount Kenya with a group of men in the foreground looking up to the peak.Due to the nature of these images, prints will reproduce any signs of age,...

Portrait of a youth shortly after his circumcision, wearing a band round his forehead to which he has fastened the stuffed skins of small birds he has shot with his...

Close-up profile portrait of Lawi, a young Samburu man, taken shortly after his circumcision. He still wear the black skin cloak and has also been adorned with woman's earrings and...

View of the snow-capped Mount Kilimanjaro (5,895), the highest mountain in Africa, with Mawenzi peak on the left and Kibo peak on the right, and buffalo or wildebeest grazing on...

Portrait of a woman, sitting, wearing heavy metal jewellery on her arms, with a man sitting behind her.Due to the nature of these images, prints will reproduce any signs of...

View of people at a souk (market) in Fez.Due to the nature of these images, prints will reproduce any signs of age, wear or damage that occurred before they were...

Portrait of Wilfred Thesiger, standing, holding a rifle across his shoulders. This photograph was taken by Omar Ibrahim, Thesiger's Somali headman on his Awash expedition.Due to the nature of these...

View of Haile Salassie, standing beneath a canopy, wearing his State Crown and holding an orb and sceptre, on the day of his coronation as Emperor of Abyssinia.Due to the...

View of Wilfred Thesiger's expedition party setting out from the Awash Station at the start of his 1933-4 Awash expedition.Due to the nature of these images, prints will reproduce any...

View of Lake Turkana (formerly called Lake Rudolf) seen from its southern end near Teleki's volcano, with a man standing, holding a spear, on a rocky plain in the foreground.Due...

Portrait of a Turkana elder wearing a feather headdress, large metal nose ornament, and beaded and metal jewellery around his neck and arms.Due to the nature of these images, prints...

Portrait of a recently circumcised Samburu boy wearing a black goat skin and ostrich feathers and small bird skins attached to his headband. He is posing with a bow and...

View of Mount Kenya (seen from the Teleki Valley), glaciers clearly visible on its slopes, with giant groundsel in the foreground.Due to the nature of these images, prints will reproduce...

Portrait of a youth (named Lawi Leboyare), standing outside a hut, wrapped in the goatskin cloak traditionally worn at the time of circumcision.Due to the nature of these images, prints...

Portrait of a boy, standing, holding the reins of a tethered mule.Due to the nature of these images, prints will reproduce any signs of age, wear or damage that occurred...

View of Abyssinian warriors on horseback escorting Wilfred Gilbert Thesiger into Addis Ababa to present his credentials to Lij Yasu, heir apparent to the Emperor Menelik.Due to the nature of...

Portrait of two Afar (Asaimara Danakil) warriors, standing, wearing knives across their waists from which hang leather tassels denoting how many men each has killed. The man on the left...