Thesiger Collection

Portrait of a little boy of the Bayt Kathir Bedouin taken in the Wadi 'Aydim region between Mudayy and Harbarut. The boy is eating a coconut. Wilfred Thesiger met this...

View of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party trekking towards high dunes in the Bani Ma'arid sands of the Empty Quarter (Rub' al Khali). Due to the nature of these images, prints...

Mahra Bedouin with water-skins at the Sarif wells.Due to the nature of these images, prints will reproduce any signs of age, wear or damage that occurred before they were archived...

Close up profile portrait of a thoroughbred female batina camel taken in the sands near Al Ain. The camel faces towards the left (only its head and neck are visible)....

Portrait of Musallim bin Anauf, the son of Salim bin Turkia. Musallim bin Anauf, a member of the Bayt Gidad lineage of Bayt Kathir Bedouin, sits on the ground facing...

Portrait of a teenaged boy of the Qara tribe kneeling in sand at a pool in the Wadi Darbat.Due to the nature of these images, prints will reproduce any signs...

View of Wilfred Thesiger's party riding across rolling dunes in the Ramlat al Ghirbaniyat (Ghirbaniyat Sands). Due to the nature of these images, prints will reproduce any signs of age,...

View of livestock traders at a suq (market) in the city of Ad Dali'. A large crowd of traders moves amongst cows crowded together in an open air market. In...

Wilfred Thesiger's party in or 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...

View of Wilfred Thesiger's Bedouin travelling party watering camels at a well during the party's journey from Jabal Buwaydah to Al Qabil. Due to the nature of these images, prints...

View of long dune chains in the Sharqiyah Sands, west of Batha' Badiyah.Due to the nature of these images, prints will reproduce any signs of age, wear or damage that...

Full length portrait of one of Wilfred Thesiger's guides standing on a rock outcrop below Jebel Hafeet [Jabal Hafit] mountain. In the right foreground a man in an izaar (wraparound...

Portrait of Salim bin Kabina, one of Wilfred Thesiger's Bedouin companions, standing in Al Khatam or Al Humrah sands south of Al Ain. Salim bin Kabina, a tribesman of the...

Group portrait of Wilfred Thesiger with the four members of his travelling party who accompanied him on his first crossing of the Rub' al Khali (Empty Quarter). In the first...

View of multi-storeyed buildings built from rammed earth in the town of Dhahran in Qahtan tribal territory.Due to the nature of these images, prints will reproduce any signs of age,...

Full length standing portrait of two Duru Bedouin boys in the Wadi al 'Ayn. Two smiling Duru boys stand in the foreground facing forward. The boy on the left holds...

View of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party watering their camels at 'Ayn al Hasy well in the Empty Quarter (Rub' al Khali). Four men are gathered around the well. Camels wait...

Portrait of an Arab falconer, a member of Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan's hunting party, riding a camel with a peregrine falcon in the Al Khatam sands near Jebel...

Standing full length portrait of Salim bin Ghabaisha, one of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling companions, on a sand dune in the Ramlat ar Rabbad sands. Salim bin Ghabaisha, a tribesman of...

View of a lone bare tree at the bottom of a high dune in the 'Uruq ash Shaybah sands in the Empty Quarter (Rub' al Khali). The 'Uruq ash Shaybah...