Thesiger Collection

View of a herd of couched camels belonging to Rashid Bedouin at a well in the region surrounding Kuwait City. The camels are couched close together in a large group....

View of a group of Arab men and women resting in the shade at a sunken garden in the Wadi Fatimah near Mecca.Due to the nature of these images, prints...

Portrait of three young boys, named Munzuk [Murzuk], Erzek and Merzik, of the Bayt Kathir Bedouin taken in the Wadi 'Aydim region between Mudayy and Harbarut. A young boy stands...

View of multi-storeyed buildings built from rammed earth in the town of Dhahran in Qahtan tribal territory.Due to the nature of these images, prints will reproduce any signs of age,...

View of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party resting on a salt pan in the Ramlat as Sahmah. Young tamarisk trees grow in the salt pan. Due to the nature of these...

View of dune chains in the Al Dhafra sands between Dhibi well and Al Batin sands in the Empty Quarter (Rub' al Khali). Widely spaced dune chains stretch from the...

Portrait of a guide in Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party, a tribesman of the Wahiba Bedouin, taken during the party's journey through the upper Wadi al Batha' east of Qabil al...

View of a dhow (sailboat) moored in Dubai Creek at sunset. In the left foreground a small dhow is moored along the shore of Dubai Creek. In the distance the...

Group portrait of four Bedouin boys at Bir Ali' well. One of the boys on the left is holding a stick. In the far left background a few goats stand...

View of Sahul Bedouin drawing water from one of the Rumah wells. On the left a men man sits on a camel. On the right a man stands by the...

View of dunes in Al Batin sands near Liwa oasis in the Empty Quarter (Rub' al Khali). A ridge of barren sand in the foreground is broken by a depression...

View of sand dunes in the Rub' al Khali (Empty Quarter) in the region between Khawr bin 'Atarit well in the Ghanim Sands and the Ramlat al Ghafah.Due to the...

Portrait of three Qara tribesmen, two men and a teenaged boy, in the Jabal Qara mountains above Wadi Nihiz. The tribesmen stand in the right foreground on a rock at...

View of camel in a wadi bed in the region between Dahal well and Qabr Hud well.Due to the nature of these images, prints will reproduce any signs of age,...

Portrait of two Rashid tribesmen at an encampment near Bir al Tawil in the Ramlat ar Rabbad. These men are sons of Muhammad, a sheikh of the Rashid Bedouin, with...

Portrait of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party gathering water from a well at the southern end of Jabal Hafit (Jebel Hafeet). In the foreground three men stand in a well, while...

View of Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan's hunting party at a Manasir encampment in the Al Khatam sands near Al Ain. In the foreground four members of Sheikh Zayed's...

View of a Bani Sa'ad tribal village in the region between Jabal Baydan mountain and the city of At Taif. In the village a number of square flat-roofed houses built...

View of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party trekking towards a palm grove in Liwa oasis. In the foreground a few clumps of qassis (sedge) grow scattered across an expanse of bare...

Houses at Jizan. These are stone-built square houses.Due to the nature of these images, prints will reproduce any signs of age, wear or damage that occurred before they were archived...