Thesiger Collection

Portrait of a boy in the lower Wadi Damad region, east of Sabya. Due to the nature of these images, prints will reproduce any signs of age, wear or damage...

View of a mountain settlement in the region north of the city of Ad Dali' in Ad Dali' Governorate. On the far left terraced fields cut across the slope of...

Portrait of a peregrine falcon (shahin) with its prey, a desert hare, in the sands surrounding Al Ain. In the central foreground a peregrine falcon, belonging to Sheikh Zayed bin...

Full length portrait of a captive white oryx in Dubai. A white Arabian oryx [oryx leucoryx] with long straight horns stands in a sandy central courtyard in sand littered with...

Portrait of a man of the 'Ifaar Bedouin from the Wadi al 'Ayn.Due to the nature of these images, prints will reproduce any signs of age, wear or damage that...

Full length portrait of Salim bin Ghabaisha, a member of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party, standing in sands north of Al Ain oasis. Salim bin Ghabaisha, a tribesman of the Bayt...

[image obscured]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 two boys of the Sa'ar Bedouin in the Raydat as Say'ar region. One boy sits in the foreground and is mixing something in a cooking pot. The other...

View of a tall building with white ornamental lime plaster decoration in the Wadi Hadhramawt near Seiyun. Due to the nature of these images, prints will reproduce any signs of...

View of one of Wilfred Thesiger's Bedouin companions at their campsite in the Al Khatam sands south of Al Ain, during their journey towards Al Humrah sands. In the foreground...

Half-length portrait of Muhammad, a sheikh of the Rashid Bedouin, at his encampment near Bir al Tawil in the Ramlat ar Rabbad sands. Muhammad, wearing a ghutra (head-cloth) and aghal...

Close up portrait of a nakhoda at Dubai Creek. An older man with a grey beard stands in front of two beached dhows in Dubai Creek. He is a nakhoda...

View of dhows (sailboats) beached in the sand on the shoreline of Kuwait City. In the foreground two men carry a box of cargo past a small beached dhow. In...

Portrait of a elderly tribesman of the Wahiba Bedouin at Wilfred Thesiger's camp in Wadi Hawshi. Due to the nature of these images, prints will reproduce any signs of age,...

View of tall multi-storey buildings, some decorated with white ornamental lime, in the Wadi Hadhramawt near Seiyun. A mountain rises up behind the buildings.Due to the nature of these images,...

View of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party trekking across sand dunes in Liwa oasis. In the left foreground three of Wilfred Thesiger's Rashid Bedouin companions lead camels across sand dotted with...

Portrait of Salim bin Tamtaim, sheikh of the Bayt Ghuwas lineage of Bayt Kathir Bedouin, resting on the ground during the party's journey from Shisr well to Mughshin Oasis. Salim...

View of Wilfred Thesiger's party trekking across dunes in Al Humrah sands during their journey to Umm az Zumul. In the foreground a line of tracks crosses a sand ridge,...

View of old Sabya from the Emir's palace. An empty courtyard sits in the foreground, surrounded by a high stone wall. Behind the courtyard sits a square building. Further beyond...

View of small tufts of vegetation growing on dunes in the region between Jaladah plain and the Bani Ma'arid sands in the Empty Quarter (Rub' al Khali). Due to the...