Thesiger Collection

Seated portrait of Muhammad bin Al Jabari, one of Wilfred Thesiger's Bedouin guides, at a campfire in Ramlat ar Rabbad sands. Muhammad bin Al Jabari, a tribesman of the Awamir...

View of a man and a woman of the Sa'ar Bedouin hauling water from Manwakh well. They are pulling on a rope. The woman wears silver belts around her waist...

View of a member of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party standing at the entrance to the sink hole at Shisr well. The well is located at the bottom of the sink...

View of an interior room in a tower house in the town of Qalat Bishah. The floor walls of the room are painted with patterns and stripes, and the floor...

Profile portrait of a teenaged boy of the Sa'ar Bedouin in the Raydat as Say'ar region. Due to the nature of these images, prints will reproduce any signs of age,...

View of a man standing on a sand ridge in front of Al Muwaiji Fort, then the home of Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan, in Al Ain oasis. In...

View of two camels in front of a round hut in the town of Umm al Khashab. The hut has a pointed domed roof, and sits in the foreground. In...

Side view of two kotias, large double masted dhows (sailboats) from India, moored at Bahrain Island. In the foreground a small dhow is moored along the side of the kotia,...

View of Bani Malik tribesmen at a line of market booths at the Suq as Sabt [Saturday market] in the Bani Malik Mountains. Due to the nature of these images,...

View of Wilfred Thesiger's party camping with Duru Bedouin in the Wadi al 'Ayn. On the left three men stand next to a couched camel. Two of the men are...

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...

Seated portrait of Wilfred Thesiger taken by an unknown photographer at the southern end of the mountain Jabal Hafit (Jebel Hafeet) near Al Qabil. Wilfred Thesiger kneels in the foreground,...

Mountain landscape in the Wadi 'Arf or Wadi Madi.Due to the nature of these images, prints will reproduce any signs of age, wear or damage that occurred before they were...

Portrait of two of Wilfred Thesiger's Bedouin guides riding camels in the Wadi Mitan. Muhammad bin Shuas, a tribesman of the Bayt Imani lineage of Rashid Bedouin, rides the camel...

View of terraced fields in a valley in the region north of the city of Ad Dali' in Ad Dali' Governorate. Terraced fields run across a large valley flanked by...

View of a square stone building built on the slope of a steep rocky mountain in the region surrounding Ad Dali' in Ad Dali' Governorate. Due to the nature of...

View of rocky valley on Jebel Hafeet [Jabal Hafit] mountain. In the foreground a lone bush grows in rocky soil on a valley slope. A few clusters of vegetation grow...

Bedouin with their camels.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...

Portrait of a man of the Rashid Bedouin at Ghayl bin Yamayn.Due to the nature of these images, prints will reproduce any signs of age, wear or damage that occurred...

Portrait of a herds boy of the Bayt Kathir Bedouin in Dhofar.Due to the nature of these images, prints will reproduce any signs of age, wear or damage that occurred...