Thesiger Collection

Portrait of a boy of the Bayt Zabnawt lineage of Mahra Bedouin at Habarut [Habrut] wells.Due to the nature of these images, prints will reproduce any signs of age, wear...

Three-quarter length portrait of a Naim sheikh standing in front of a cannon outside Qasr Al Hosn fort in Abu Dhabi. The Naim sheikh wears a ghutra (headscarf) tied in...

View of rocky landscape near the town of Qalat Bishah. A pile of large boulders sits in the foreground. In the distance beyond a number of tall date palms grow...

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...

Two Bedouin boys at Bir Muhammad Yahyah well near Wadi Bayd.Due to the nature of these images, prints will reproduce any signs of age, wear or damage that occurred before...

Portrait of a boy in the Wadi Baysh.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 Wilfred Thesiger's party visiting a village in the foothills west of Batha' Badiyah. In the foreground a member of the party walks toward a building with a large...

View of a member of Wilfred Thesiger's party standing on the crest of a dune in the sands of the 'Uruq ash Shaybah.Due to the nature of these images, prints...

Wadi Baysh in flood in the foothills near Jibal ar Rayth.Due to the nature of these images, prints will reproduce any signs of age, wear or damage that occurred before...

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...

View of Wilfred Thesiger's party trekking through Al Khatam sands south of Al Ain, on their journey towards Al Humrah sands. In the foreground a bare tree sits in the...

Standing portrait of an elder Arab man at Sheikh Saqr bin Mohammed Al Qasimi's fort in the town of Ras Al Khaimah. A man in a dark coloured thobe (shirt)...

View of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party in the Uruq az Zayza sands in the Empty Quarter (Rub' al Khali).Due to the nature of these images, prints will reproduce any signs...

Standing portrait of a group of men and boys at a suq (market) in the city of Lawdar in Abyan Governorate. Due to the nature of these images, prints will...

View of an Utaybah Bedouin family watering their sheep at Al Qaiyah well. In the background a herd of camels stands on the dry flat plain. Due to the nature...

Wilfred Thesiger's camp near Ghayl bin Yumayn.Due to the nature of these images, prints will reproduce any signs of age, wear or damage that occurred before they were archived by...

Two men and a boy of the Qahtan in Wadi Qa'ah.Due to the nature of these images, prints will reproduce any signs of age, wear or damage that occurred before...

View of the Al Haddar tombs in the city of Al Qatan in the Wadi Hadhramawt. On the left sit the two tombs, which have pointed domed roofs and are...

View of a Bedouin man, in Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party, standing in a graveyard in the Wadi Ghabartan. The graves are covered with piled stones. Upturned stones sit on the...

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...