Thesiger Collection

Group portrait of a young man and two boys at Shehara cattle camp on the Jarbayb Plain. Further behind them a small boy stands in the grass. In the background...

View of Wilfred Thesiger's party resting with their camels in the Ghanim Sands during the party's journey from Mughshin Oasis to Khawr bin 'Atarit well. Due to the nature of...

A palm grove at Ghayl bin Yamayn.Due to the nature of these images, prints will reproduce any signs of age, wear or damage that occurred before they were archived by...

Side view of dhows (sailboats) moored along the shore of Bahrain Island. In the left foreground the bow of a dhow is moored in flat water rippled by gentle waves....

Profile portrait of Wilfred Thesiger's camel, a thoroughbred Omani camel, couched in the Al Dhafra sands during the party's journey to Baynunah. The camel is couched in profile, facing to...

Seated portrait of a Bedouin tribesman and a boy in the Ramlat ar Rabbad sands. A Bedouin man sits in the sand with a young boy. The man wears a...

Three-quarter length portrait of a young Bedouin boy near the town of Ash Shihr. Two men are visible behind him in the left background.Due to the nature of these images,...

View of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party trekking through Al Batin sands, near Liwa oasis, in the Empty Quarter (Rub' al Khali). In the foreground members of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party,...

View of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party trekking in the Uruq al Awarik sands or Al Jaladah plain in the Empty Quarter (Rub' al Khali). Due to the nature of these...

View of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party trekking through Al Batin sands during their journey across the Empty Quarter (Rub' al Khali) from Al Dhafra sands to Liwa oasis. Three members...

Portrait of Awad bin Khazai, a sheikh of the Bayt Imani lineage of Rashid Bedouin. He is carrying a rifle, a bag, a camel stick and a pot.Due to the...

Portrait of Salim bin Kabina, a member of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party, standing in the Empty Quarter (Rub' al Khali) during the party's journey from Jaladah plain to Bani Ma'arid...

View of Wilfred Thesiger's Bedouin companions watering camels at a well in the Al Batin sands near Liwa oasis. In the centre one man pours a leather bucket full of...

Half length portrait of Wilfred Thesiger taken during his party's journey from the As Saruq sands to Abu Dhabi near the end of his second journey across the Empty Quarter...

View of Shibam.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.

People at Al Mukalla.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...

View of Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan's hunting party in Al Khatam sands near Al Ain. In the foreground large tufts of qassis (sedge) grow on the slope of...

Half length portrait of a boy and a young man in the village of Marat in the Al Washm region. Due to the nature of these images, prints will reproduce...

View of a member of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party riding through desert sands during the party's journey from the Wadi al 'Ayn to the Ramlat al Ghirbaniyat (Ghirbaniyat Sands). In...

View of sailors hoisting sails on the deck of a dhow (sailboat) travelling through the Persian Gulf from Dubai to Bahrain Island. A group of sailors stand on deck along...