Thesiger Collection

Portrait of Salim bin Ghabaisha, 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...

Close-up profile portrait of Lawi, a young Samburu man, taken shortly after his circumcision. He still wear the black skin cloak and has also been adorned with woman's earrings and...

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...

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

Portrait of Salim bin Kabina, one of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling companions, holding a rifle in his right hand.Due to the nature of these images, prints will reproduce any signs of...

Portrait of Wilfred Thesiger, standing, holding a rifle across his shoulders. This photograph was taken by Omar Ibrahim, Thesiger's Somali headman on his Awash expedition.Due to the nature of these...

View of Haile Salassie, standing beneath a canopy, wearing his State Crown and holding an orb and sceptre, on the day of his coronation as Emperor of Abyssinia.Due to the...

Portrait of Wilfred Thesiger, standing, with the camel (named Ghazala) which he rode during his second crossing of the Empty Quarter (Rub' al Khali).Due to the nature of these images,...

Portrait of a youth (named Lawi Leboyare), standing outside a hut, wrapped in the goatskin cloak traditionally worn at the time of circumcision.Due to the nature of these images, prints...

Portrait of Wilfred Thesiger, kneeling on the ground, holding a stick in his right hand.Due to the nature of these images, prints will reproduce any signs of age, wear or...

View of a party of people including Wilfred Gilbert Thesiger [father of Wilfred Patrick Thesiger], recently appointed as Consul-General at Addis Ababa, with his wife and other British Legation staff...

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 Museum.

Portrait of Salim bin Ghabaisha and Thesiger. Thesiger has a dagger in his belt, and Salim bin Ghabaisha is holding a rifle.Due to the nature of these images, prints will...

Portrait of Salim bin Kabina, one of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling companions, sitting on the ground, holding the rifle given to him by Thesiger.Due to the nature of these images, prints...

Wilfred Thesiger with his camel Umbrausha, which he rode on the journey to Mughshin.Due to the nature of these images, prints will reproduce any signs of age, wear or damage...

Group portrait of Wilfred Thesiger (right) and three other members of a hunting party, one of whom carries the head of a Barbary sheep (shot in the Jabal Meidob hills)...

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

Portrait of Wilfred Thesiger, standing, on the upper deck of the Nile steamer Kereri, with a large number of hunting trophies (from the Western Nuer District) laid out and arranged...

A portrait of Thesiger sitting on a lion shot by him in Western Nuerland, one of forty lions he shot in southern Sudan. Due to the nature of these images,...

Portrait of Salim bin Ghabaisha, 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...