Thesiger Collection

Half length portrait of a herds boy of the Rashid Bedouin in the sands near Al Ain. The boy sits in the sand, looking towards the near right. A few...

View of sailors hoisting sails on a dhow (sailboat) in the Persian Gulf near Dubai. In the foreground a group of sailors stand on deck in two lines in front...

View of Sa'ar Bedouin watering at Manwakh well. A young child wearing a shell and bead skirt stands in the foreground. Behind the child a crowd of people using ropes...

View of locals at a suq (market) in the city of Sharjah. Two boys stand in the far left foreground. Behind them, four men stand facing an 'arish hut and...

View of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party watering their camels at Hanun well.Due to the nature of these images, prints will reproduce any signs of age, wear or damage that occurred...

View of two members of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party in Al Dhafra sands during the party's journey to Baynunah. In the foreground small clumps of vegetation grow on a stretch...

Portrait of a boy of the Sa'ar Bedouin at Manwakh well.Due to the nature of these images, prints will reproduce any signs of age, wear or damage that occurred before...

Close up portrait of two boys at a well near the town of Al Qunfidhah.Due to the nature of these images, prints will reproduce any signs of age, wear or...

Portrait of two of young men of the Bayt Gidad lineage of Bayt Kathir Bedouin sitting on a hillside in Wadi Arbat. The young man on the left is Suhail...

Standing portrait of an Arab woman in hills near the town of Qalat Bishah. She is carrying a child on her back, a lamb in her arm and holds a...

View of an Awazim or Ajman Bedouin family at their tent in the region between Kuwait City and Al Qatif on the Persian Coast. Due to the nature of these...

View of landscape near Kismim Pass in the Jabal Qara mountains. In the near distance a grassy down dotted with large bushes lies below a far hillside covered in deciduous...

Portrait of a boy of the Bin Maaruf lineage of Sa'ar Bedouin at Manwakh well. He is kneeling on the ground.Due to the nature of these images, prints will reproduce...

View of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party crossing high dunes in Liwa oasis. The party, made up of tribesmen of the Bayt Imani lineage of Rashid Bedouin, rides camels along the...

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...

Wilfred Thesiger's party in a wadi at Fughmah.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 group of people standing in front of two large dhows (sailboats) beached in shallow water on the shoreline of Kuwait City. The boats are booms, Kuwaiti built...

View of Awazim or Ajman Bedouin at a well in the region between Kuwait City and Al Qatif on the Persian Coast. In the foreground men haul water out of...

View of traders and shoppers at the open air market in the town of Qalat Bishah. In the foreground two camels sit alongside a group of Arab men and a...

Portrait of two boys at Umm al Khashab. One is wearing a straw hat.Due to the nature of these images, prints will reproduce any signs of age, wear or damage...