Thesiger Collection

Mountain landscape at Jallat al Mawt.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...

View of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party trekking through rocky country during their journey from the Tamniyah mountains to Al 'Abis village.Due to the nature of these images, prints will reproduce...

Two of Wilfred Thesiger's party.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...

Standing full length profile portrait of a thoroughbred Omani camel belonging to Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan in the Al Khatam sands near Al Ain. The camel poses in...

Mountain landscape in the region above Wadi Kidyut, west of Sarif wells.Due to the nature of these images, prints will reproduce any signs of age, wear or damage that occurred...

View of a Manasir Bedouin encampment in the Al Khatam sands near Al Ain. In the central distance a Manasir tent clad in striped woven blankets has been erected alongside...

Portrait of a tribesman of the Rashid Bedouin at an encampment near Bir al Tawil in the Ramlat ar Rabbad. This man is the son of Muhammad, a sheikh of...

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...

Seated portrait of the sheikh of Al Hubi village. The shiekh of Al Hubi, an older Arab man with a grey beard, crouches in the sand in front of a...

View of people at a suq (market) in the city of Ad Dali'. People walk through a crowded street lined with market traders sitting at makeshift stalls. Square stone buildings...

View of cattle grazing on a farmer's field in the Al Ghamid tribal region between the villages of Al Makhwah and Thurayban. Due to the nature of these images, prints...

View of locals watering cows and donkeys at a well near the village of Thurayban.Due to the nature of these images, prints will reproduce any signs of age, wear or...

Three-quarter length standing portrait of a tribesman of the Wahiba Bedouin at Furai well in Sharqiyah Sands.Due to the nature of these images, prints will reproduce any signs of age,...

View of salt bushes growing on a flat in Al Batin sands in the Empty Quarter (Rub' al Khali). In the foreground two large salt bushes grow in an area...

At Sabya. A boy with a donkey. The donkey is carrying several large pottery vessels. Other children behind him.Due to the nature of these images, prints will reproduce any signs...

View of a member of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party in the Ramlat ar Rabbad sands. In the right foreground a Bedouin man stands on the slope of a dune. In...

Wilfred Thesiger's party in the lower Wadi 'Aydim.Due to the nature of these images, prints will reproduce any signs of age, wear or damage that occurred before they were archived...

View of a member of Wilfred Thesiger's Bedouin travelling party standing on a hillside in a wadi near the well of Ma' Shadid.Due to the nature of these images, prints...

Portrait of Muhammad al Auf and another member of Wilfred Thesiger's party sitting side by side on a gravel plain during the party's journey between Yisub well and Wadi Darbat....

Group portrait of five men and a boy of the Bin Maaruf lineage of Sa'ar Bedouin sitting on the ground at Manwakh well.Due to the nature of these images, prints...