Thesiger Collection

View of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party resting with their camels in the Hejaz foothills of the upper Wadi Hali. The men sit beside a small farmer's shelter in a field.Due...

A tomb in the town of Al Qatan, west of Shibam, in the Wadi Hadramawt. This is a white, domed building with extensions and columns in front.Due to the nature...

View of Wilfred Thesiger's Bedouin travelling party resting with their camels in the Ramlat al Ghafah.Due to the nature of these images, prints will reproduce any signs of age, wear...

View of dhows (sailboats) and a rowboat on Dubai Creek. In the foreground a man stands in a small boat beached on the shore, while to the left a small...

View of sailors changing the sail on a dhow (sailboat) travelling through the Persian Gulf from Dubai to Bahrain Island. A number of sailors perch on a wooden yard, untying...

Portrait of a boy of the Al Thalid tribe in Jabal Dhahran. He is wearing herbs in his hair.Due to the nature of these images, prints will reproduce any signs...

Portrait of a local Arab man and boy watering at Ad Darb well. They stand on the edge of the well, leaning against the large wooden frame built over the...

View of a boy of the Sa'ar Bedouin pouring water into a hawd, a wood and leather trough, at Manwakh well. On the left a man takes water from the...

View of sailors on a dhow (sailboat) in the Persian Gulf near Dubai. A group of sailors stand on the foredeck of a dhow tying a sail to the main...

Portrait of a Bedouin man, possibly a member of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party, in Al Muwaiji near Al Muwaiji Fort in Al Ain oasis. The man sits cross-legged in the...

Seated group portrait of five villagers or Bedouin men in the region of Al Ain oasis. Five men holding rifles kneel in the sand in half shade. All the men...

Portrait of a boy at Umm al Khashab. He is wearing a hat made from palm fronds.Due to the nature of these images, prints will reproduce any signs of age,...

View of three members of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party trekking in the Al Dhafra sands, north-west of Liwa oasis. In the foreground clumps of qassis (sedge) grow on a flat...

View of a crowd of people and two couched camels at the Suq al Khamis [Thursday market] in the town of Najran. Due to the nature of these images, prints...

Full length standing portrait of a tribesman of the Bani Kitab Bedouin at a well near Sharjah city. The man wears a ghutra (headscarf) wrapped around his head and a...

Portrait of a Bedouin man, a member of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party, in the lower Wadi 'Aydim.Due to the nature of these images, prints will reproduce any signs of age,...

Portrait of Musallim bin Anauf, the fifteen year old son of Salim bin Turkia, in Jabal Qara. Musallim bin Anauf, a member of the Bayt Gidad lineage of Bayt Kathir...

View of two camels belonging to Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party at a salt flat in Al Batin sands. In the foreground two camels graze on a vast empty salt flat...

Portrait of two young men at Al Haqu village. One of them is the Emir's son.Due to the nature of these images, prints will reproduce any signs of age, wear...

At Fughmah. Camels at the water's edge and a man standing in the shallow water. Mountains in the background.Due to the nature of these images, prints will reproduce any signs...