Thesiger Collection

View of dhows (sailboats) and small sailing craft beached in the sand on the shores of Kuwait City. In the near distance an Arab boy stands beside one of the...

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...

View overlooking a valley 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...

Full length portrait of a man and a young boy standing at the side of a river in the region between the cities of Sabya and Jizan. Due to the...

Portrait of a boy in the lower Wadi Damad region, east of Sabya. Due to the nature of these images, prints will reproduce any signs of age, wear or damage...

Full length standing portrait of an elderly Bedouin man and an Arab boy at Dubai. On the left a young man wears a waistcoat and a khanjar (dagger) in a...

View of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party trekking between dunes in the Empty Quarter (Rub' al Khali) during the party's journey from Jaladah plain to Bani Ma'arid sands. Due to the...

Group portrait of two boys and a man standing in a crowd at the Suq al Khamis [Thursday market] in the town of Najran.Due to the nature of these images,...

Seated profile portrait of an elder Bedouin man at a fort (likely Al Muwaiji Fort) in Al Ain. An elder Bedouin man with a long goatee and short hair sits...

Portrait of a 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 before...

View of the village of Sawda surrounded by terraced fields. The village is made up of square stone buildings clustered together at the top of a sloping hillside. In the...

View of Wilfred Thesiger's party watering camels at Khasfah well in the Ramlat Khasfah. Due to the nature of these images, prints will reproduce any signs of age, wear or...

Half-length portrait of an older Bedouin man outside Al Muwaiji Fort in Al Ain. A man wearing a thobe (long shirt) and a headscarf (ghutra) topped with a thin black...

View of sailors changing the sail on a dhow (sailboat) travelling through the Persian Gulf from Dubai to Bahrain Island. Three sailors perch on a wooden yard high above the...

Portrait of one of Wilfred Thesiger's sailing companions on the deck of a dhow (sailboat) in the Abu Dhabi islands. A sailor kneels on a rolled woven mat at the...

Portrait of Said bin Kabina, Salim bin Kabina's younger brother, at Al Muqarqar spring in the Wadi Kidyut.Due to the nature of these images, prints will reproduce any signs of...

Portrait of a sixteen-year-old boy crouching in front of a hut in the village of Ash Shuqaiq. He is wearing white trousers, typically women's dress but here worn as part...

View of stone buildings in the village of Thurayban. In the foreground a woman walks along a street past a number of one storey stone houses, which are connected together....

Wilfred Thesiger's party in the Wadi 'Andam, possibly at Al Jiza well. Ali bin Said bin Rashid, a sheikh of the Yahahif lineage of Wahiba Bedouin, stands next to his...

Portrait of a man and woman of the Wahiba Bedouin at a well in the Sharqiyah Sands. They are each lowering a rope into the well. Due to the nature...