Thesiger Collection

Portrait of Emir Said Bin Mushait's children standing at the entrance to Khamis Mushait Castle. At the time of this photograph, the castle was the home of Emir Said Bin...

View of Sa'ar Bedouin watering at Manwakh well. A crowd of people are using ropes and pulleys to haul water from the well. In the foreground a woman is filling...

View of a line of couched camels resting at Sarif wells. Due to the nature of these images, prints will reproduce any signs of age, wear or damage that occurred...

Full length standing portrait of two boys in front of Al Fahidi fort in the Bastakiya Quarter. A boy wearing a ghutra (headscarf) and wraparound skirt stands in sand on...

Bedouin near Fughmah.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.

View of water sellers unloading imported water from a dhow (sailboat) at the harbour in Kuwait City. In the foreground boys and men stand in the tide beside a dhow,...

Mountain landscape at Jabal Fayfa.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...

Side view of a kotia, a large double masted dhow (sailboat) from India, moored at Bahrain Island. A kotia sits in choppy water, bow pointing to the right. A man...

Buildings at Ghayl bin Yamayn. A white building with a tower on the right. Ruined buildings at the foot of a hill. Another building on top of the hill.Due to...

View of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party at a palm grove in Liwa oasis. In the foreground four of Wilfred Thesiger's Rashid Bedouin companions stand with their camels beside a grove...

View of Sultan bin Ahmad, one of the leaders of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party, sitting with a young boy in the cliffs above Andhur spring. Sultan bin Ahmad, a sheikh...

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.

Portrait of a man and an older boy belonging to a Manahil Bedouin raiding party that Wilfred Thesiger met at Huliyah well. The man on the left is holding a...

Group portrait of two members of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party resting in camp in the Wadi Thu'ayt. Two of Wilfred Thesiger's Bayt Kathir Bedouin guides kneel in the sand facing...

Portrait of a man of the Mahra Bedouin taken in the region between Wadi Khawat and Wadi Shu'ayt.Due to the nature of these images, prints will reproduce any signs of...

View of the stern of a kotia, a large double masted dhow (sailboat) from India, moored at Bahrain Island. A kotia sits in choppy water, its bow pointing into the...

View of Wilfred Thesiger's party camping on a hillside in Jabal Qara.Due to the nature of these images, prints will reproduce any signs of age, wear or damage that occurred...

Profile view of dhows (sailboats) moored in the Persian Gulf near Bahrain Island. Four large dhows, some with two masts, are moored in calm water rippled by gentle waves. The...

Portrait of four Qara tribesmen, a man and three boys, standing in front of a tree in the Jabal Qara mountains.Due to the nature of these images, prints will reproduce...

Portrait of a young man of the Qahtan Bedouin in the region between Jabal Dhahran and the town of Dhahran, near the Yemen Border.Due to the nature of these images,...