Thesiger Collection

Wilfred Thesiger's party preparing food. Salim bin Kabina, a young man of the Bayt Imani lineage of Rashid Bedouin, sits on the left. He is stirring the contents of a...

View of Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan's hunting party in Al Khatam sands near Al Ain. In the foreground five men group around a fire on a low sand...

View of Wilfred Thesiger's Bedouin travelling party resting in a wadi near Mudayy, during the party's journey from Ayun to Mudayy.Due to the nature of these images, prints will reproduce...

Portrait of a boy from 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 Bedouin travelling party watering camels at Ayun spring.Due to the nature of these images, prints will reproduce any signs of age, wear or damage that occurred...

View of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party camping under a ghaf [Prosopis cineraria] tree at Mughshin Oasis. In the centre men are butchering a camel at Mughshin Oasis. The men sit...

Seated portrait of two Manasir Bedouin men at their encampment in the Baynunah sands. Two elderly Manasir men with thick beards sit in front of a large bush. Each man...

Portrait of a peregrine falcon, belonging to Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan's hunting party, resting in the Al Khatam sands near Al Ain. On the right a peregrine falcon...

View of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party resting in the region of the Wadi al 'Ayn. A number of camels are couched on a sandy plain which is dotted with tufts...

Seated portrait of a teenaged boy from one of the Shahra tribes in the Jabal Qara mountains. The boy sits in the foreground holding a khanjar (dagger). A cloth is...

Profile view of two members of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party trekking in the Al Dhafra sands, north-west of Liwa oasis. In the foreground two of Wilfred Thesiger's Rashid Bedouin companions...

Portrait of a Qahtan prisoner at Jallat al Mawt in Wadi Dab'ah. The shaved strip on his head shows he has not been circumcised.Due to the nature of these images,...

Close up portrait of a middle-aged Arab man, a retainer in Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan's hunting party, in the sands near Al Ain. The man faces forward, his...

Huts at Umm al Khashab.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...

Desert landscape in the Al Batin sands of the Empty Quarter (Rub' al Khali), in the region below Liwa oasis. View of a dune dotted with sparse dry vegetation and...

View of round huts with domed roofs in a village in the Wadi Hali near Baydayn.Due to the nature of these images, prints will reproduce any signs of age, wear...

View from a hillside looking down into a valley in the region surrounding the village of Sawda.Due to the nature of these images, prints will reproduce any signs of age,...

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

View of a cluster of saf palms [Nannorhops arabica in the region between Wadi Musallim and Wadi Hawshi, likely in the Wadi al Ghabah.Due to the nature of these images,...

Standing half length portrait of Wilfred Thesiger and Musallim bin Al Kamam on a rooftop terrace in Dubai. Wilfred Thesiger (left) and Musallim bin Al Kamam (right), a sheikh of...