Thesiger Collection

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...

View of a camel standing in front of a circular hut with a high pointed roof in Ash Shuqaiq village. Due to the nature of these images, prints will reproduce...

View of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party at a shallow creek in the Wadi Tayyah, near 'Aqabat ash Sha'ar pass. The men stand beside their heavily loaded camels at the edge...

Landscape at the village of Baydayn in the Wadi Hali. A row of Sidr trees in centre of the picture.Due to the nature of these images, prints will reproduce any...

Portrait of a Mahra Bedouin boy in the region between Sarif wells and Al Muqarqar.Due to the nature of these images, prints will reproduce any signs of age, wear or...

Portrait of a boy wearing a broad-brimmed straw hat in the Wadi Yiba. This boy is from the Tihamat al Asir region, a southern coastal region on the Red Sea.Due...

View of Wilfred Thesiger's party at the Sanaw well. In the foreground sits a vast barren plain. In the distance Bedouin men in Wilfred Thesiger's party stand with a group...

Standing full length portrait of a teenaged boy in the region north of the town of Ad Dali' in Ad Dali' Governorate. The boy is standing on rocky ground and...

Seated profile portrait of Salim bin Kabina, one of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling companions, in the region surrounding Al Ain / Buraimi Oasis. Salim bin Kabina, a tribesman of the Bayt...

Seated portrait of a young man, one of Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan's Bedouin retainers in Al Ain. The man sits on a geometrically patterned woven carpet in the...

Group portrait of a three men standing in a crowd of men at the Suq ath Thulutha market. They are likely from the local 'Amara tribe.Due to the nature of...

Mahra Bedouin watering camels at a well at Habarut [Habrut] wells.Due to the nature of these images, prints will reproduce any signs of age, wear or damage that occurred before...

Portrait of a young man from the village of Umm al Khashab.Due to the nature of these images, prints will reproduce any signs of age, wear or damage that occurred...

Portrait of a boy in the city of Lawdar in Abyan Governorate. On the left a boy in a wraparound skirt stands looking forward. A young boy stands nearby on...

Portrait of a man from the Bin Maaruf lineage of Sa'ar Bedouin riding a camel at Manwakh well.Due to the nature of these images, prints will reproduce any signs of...

View of Wilfred Thesiger's party resting at a well in the Ghanim Sands, during the party's journey from Khasfah well to Matki well.Due to the nature of these images, prints...

View of a member of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party standing on a rocky mound. In the background a vast plain dotted with trees leads to the Habus village of Qabil...

View of a member of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party trekking through Al Batin sands, near Liwa oasis, in the Empty Quarter (Rub' al Khali). The man, a tribesman of the...

View of sand dunes dotted with scattered vegetation in the Ghanim Sands in the region between Khasfah well and Matki well.Due to the nature of these images, prints will reproduce...

Profile portrait of a camel, owned by Wilfred Thesiger in 1950, at a well in the plains below Hamrat ad Duru, during the party's journey from Masruq well to Al...