Thesiger Collection

Half length portrait of two boys in the suq (market) in the village of Al Makhwah. Many people crowd together behind the boys.Due to the nature of these images, prints...

Street at Shibam with high houses and a minaret.Due to the nature of these images, prints will reproduce any signs of age, wear or damage that occurred before they were...

Group portrait of Arab men and boys standing in a line in the town of Ash Shuqaiq. In the background a few huts sit at the top of a sandy...

View of Sheikh Saqr bin Mohammed Al Qasimi's fort in the town of Ras Al Khaimah. In the right foreground two men walk towards a stand of palms growing on...

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...

Seated portrait of a sheikh from one of the Shahra tribes in the Jabal Qara mountains. The young man kneels in a field of grass, gazing towards the right. He...

Portrait of Salim bin Kabina, one of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling companions, sitting in the Wadi al 'Ayn. Salim bin Kabina, a tribesman of the Bayt Imani lineage of Rashid Bedouin,...

View of two of Wilfred Thesiger's sailing companions cooking in camp on one of the Abu Dhabi islands. Two men kneel in the sand in front of a cooking fire....

Close up profile portrait, taken in the sands near Al Ain, of a thoroughbred female batina camel Wilfred Thesiger owned in 1950. The camel faces towards the left (only its...

Portrait of two Bedouin men in Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party cutting up meat from a slaughtered camel in the Wadi Hawshi. They are separating the meat from the hide. The...

Close up portrait of a curly haired boy of the Mahamid lineage of Duru Bedouin, taken in the region west of the Hamrat ad Duru. The boy is the son...

View of a boom, a large cargo-carrying sailboat, moored on Dubai Creek. On the left a small boat is tied up alongside the boom. In the background one and two...

View of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party camping beneath a tree in the Ramlat al Ghirbaniyat (Ghirbaniyat Sands). In the distance a man stands in the sand beneath a ghaf [Prosopis...

View of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party resting at a village in the Tamniyah mountains. In the near distance members of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party rest with their camels in front...

Portrait of a boy.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 Rivers...

View of Wilfred Thesiger's party resting in the Sharqiyah Sands.Due to the nature of these images, prints will reproduce any signs of age, wear or damage that occurred before they...

Standing profile portrait of Musallim bin Al Kamam, a member of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party, standing with Wilfred Thesiger's camel in the Al Dhafra sands during the party's journey to...

Buildings in the city of Seiyun. These are square buildings with several storeys, large windows and smaller openings in the walls. An open space in the foreground.Due to the nature...

Seated portrait of an old Arab man at the village of Sawda. The man is sitting on the ground wrapped in a thick cloak. He is holding a cane in...

View of Wilfred Thesiger's party trekking across a vast flat desert during their journey from the lower Wadi Shihan to Shisr well.Due to the nature of these images, prints will...