Thesiger Collection

Portrait of a man (named Sulaim).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...

View of two boys (named Musallim bin Anauf and Said bin Kabina, the younger brother of Salim bin Kabina), members of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party, sitting on the ground, tending...

Thesiger and Salim bin Kabina at Salala at the start of the journey to Mukalla.Due to the nature of these images, prints will reproduce any signs of age, wear or...

Portrait of a young man (named Yasin bin Anad), one of Wilfred Thesiger's canoe-boys.Due to the nature of these images, prints will reproduce any signs of age, wear or damage...

Portrait of a young man (named Amara bin Thuqub), one of Wilfred Thesiger's canoe-boys.Due to the nature of these images, prints will reproduce any signs of age, wear or damage...

Portrait of Salim bin Kabina, one of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling companions, sitting on the ground.Due to the nature of these images, prints will reproduce any signs of age, wear or...

Portrait of Salim bin Kabina, one of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling companions, sitting on the ground, stripping meat from a camel bone.Due to the nature of these images, prints will reproduce...

Portrait of a man (named Muhammad al Auf), a member of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party, sitting astride a saddled camel, holding a stick in his right hand.Due to the nature...

Portrait of a man (named Muhammad al Auf), a member of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party, standing with a tethered camel, holding a rifle over his shoulder, in the desert of...

Portrait of Salim bin Kabina, one of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling companions, standing.Due to the nature of these images, prints will reproduce any signs of age, wear or damage that occurred...

Portrait of Salim bin Kabina, one of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling companions, lying on the ground, wearing a dagger in a scabbard across his waist.Due to the nature of these images,...

View from behind of two of Wilfred Thesiger's canoe-boys (named Sabaiti bin Lazim and Amara bin Thuqub), paddling his tarada (sheikh's canoe) forward.Due to the nature of these images, prints...

View from behind of two of Wilfred Thesiger's canoe-boys (named Sabaiti bin Lazim and Amara bin Thuqub), paddling his tarada (sheikh's canoe) forward.Due to the nature of these images, prints...

Portrait of a man (named Sultan), a sheikh of the Beit Kathir tribe and one of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party, sitting on the ground, holding a rifle in his right...

Group portrait of Wilfred Thesiger (centre) and members of his travelling party: Muhammad bin Kalut, Salim bin Amr, Musallim bin al Kamam, Sultan and Abdullah bin Misad.Due to the nature...

Portrait of a man (named Salim bin Mautlauq), kneeling on the ground.Due to the nature of these images, prints will reproduce any signs of age, wear or damage that occurred...

Portrait of Sheikh Salim bin Tamtaim of the Beit Kathir tribe, sitting.Due to the nature of these images, prints will reproduce any signs of age, wear or damage that occurred...

Portrait of Wilfred Thesiger, standing outside the new British Legation building, holding the horns of a mountain nyala shot by his father.Due to the nature of these images, prints will...

Group portrait of Wilfred Thesiger's Awash expedition party, including Thesiger himself (seated), Omar Ibrahim (standing behind him, wearing a turban and shorts), who was Thesiger's Somali headman on the expedition,...

Group portrait of political officers who were training for a commission in the Sudan Defence Force with the Cheshire Regiment. Wilfred Thesiger is in the middle row, third from right.Due...