Thesiger Collection

View of Kibo peak on the snow-covered Mount Kilimanjaro (5,895 metres), the highest mountain in Africa.Due to the nature of these images, prints will reproduce any signs of age, wear...

Close-up portrait of a young Samburu man, taken shortly after his circumcision. He has been adorned with woman's earrings and an ostrich feather headdress.Due to the nature of these images,...

Portrait of a Berber man, standing, carrying a knife around his waist.Due to the nature of these images, prints will reproduce any signs of age, wear or damage that occurred...

View of a gorge in the High Atlas range of mountains, with two men walking beside a laden mule in the foreground.Due to the nature of these images, prints will...

View of a party of people including Wilfred Gilbert Thesiger [father of Wilfred Patrick Thesiger], recently appointed as Consul-General at Addis Ababa, with his wife and other British Legation staff...

View of the new British Legation building (constructed 1910-11) in Addis Ababa, where Wilfred Thesiger grew up, now the British Embassy.Due to the nature of these images, prints will reproduce...

Group portrait of four men, a hunting party, standing, holding spears and headrests.Due to the nature of these images, prints will reproduce any signs of age, wear or damage that...

View of the monolithic rock-hewn church of Gabriel at Lalibela, with people processing from its entrance in the foreground.Due to the nature of these images, prints will reproduce any signs...

Group portrait of Kathleen Thesiger and her sons Wilfred Thesiger (standing, left) and Brian Thesiger (seated), with a servant, at the foot of the steps in front of the new...

View of the round thatched huts, or tukuls, which served as the old British Legation buildings in Addis Ababa (prior to the construction of a new building in 1910-11), where...

Group portrait of Wilfred Thesiger (right) and three other members of a hunting party, one of whom carries the head of a Barbary sheep (shot in the Jabal Meidob hills)...

View of a leopard driven off its kill and up a tree by a pride of lions.Due to the nature of these images, prints will reproduce any signs of age,...

Portrait of Wilfred Thesiger, standing, on the upper deck of the Nile steamer Kereri, with a large number of hunting trophies (from the Western Nuer District) laid out and arranged...

A portrait of Thesiger sitting on a lion shot by him in Western Nuerland, one of forty lions he shot in southern Sudan. Due to the nature of these images,...

Portrait of a moran (warrior), standing, holding a spear.Due to the nature of these images, prints will reproduce any signs of age, wear or damage that occurred before they were...

Portrait of a youth shortly after his circumcision, wearing two black ostrich feathers in a band round his forehead to which he has fastened the stuffed skins of small birds...

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.

Portrait of the exiled Emperor Haile Selassie, standing, dressed in military uniform, talking with Wilfred Thesiger, also wearing uniform.Due to the nature of these images, prints will reproduce any signs...

Portrait of a moran (warrior), standing, wearing a lion's mane headdress.Due to the nature of these images, prints will reproduce any signs of age, wear or damage that occurred before...

Portrait of Ras Tafari, the Regent of Abyssinia (and later the Emperor Haile Selassie), standing, dressed in ceremonial robes and wearing a crown.Due to the nature of these images, prints...