Thesiger Collection

View of a street, with a palm tree prominent and a man in the foreground.Due to the nature of these images, prints will reproduce any signs of age, wear or...

View of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party in the Awarik sands in the Empty Quarter (Rub' al Khali).Due to the nature of these images, prints will reproduce any signs of age,...

Portrait of Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan, sitting astride a saddled camel, holding a peregrine falcon on his left arm.Due to the nature of these images, prints will reproduce...

View of a member of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party leading three laden camels across the Muqta to Abu Dhabi island, with a round stone watch-tower in the distance.Due to the...

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.

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.

View of Wilfred Thesiger's party at a well in the plains below Hamrat ad Duru, during the party's journey from Masruq well to Al Hubi village. Members of Wilfred Thesiger's...

Landscape at Fughmah. A wadi with some water and vegetation. Mountains rising up on both sides.Due to the nature of these images, prints will reproduce any signs of age, wear...

At Umm al Khashab. A boy sitting on a donkey. A donkey foal is following behind.Due to the nature of these images, prints will reproduce any signs of age, wear...

Seated half length portrait of a boy of the Rashid Bedouin taken by Wilfred Thesiger during his party's journey from Al Ain to Liwa oasis, likely in the region of...

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 a boy in the lower Wadi Damad region, east of Sabya. He is playing a flute.Due to the nature of these images, prints will reproduce any signs of...

View of dhows (sailboats) moored at the harbour in Kuwait City. In the background large square buildings line the shoreline.Due to the nature of these images, prints will reproduce any...

View of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party watering their camels at Qafa pool in Wadi 'Aydim. In the foreground is a large patch of dry, cracked mud. Further beyond members of...

A boy of the Humum Bedouin.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...

Portrait of a saker (hurr) falcon belonging to Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan's hunting party in the sands surrounding Al Ain. A saker falcon perches on a mangalah (cuff)...

View of a goat foraging in the Hejaz foothills of the upper Wadi Hali. Due to the nature of these images, prints will reproduce any signs of age, wear or...

Portrait of three boys of the Manahil Bedouin in the Jol region between Fughmah and Ghayl bin Yamayn.Due to the nature of these images, prints will reproduce any signs of...

Full length portrait of Ali, a young Iranian sailor, on a dhow (sailboat) in the Persian Gulf near Bahrain. A twelve-year-old sailor sits in the sun on a wooden yard...

Half length portrait of the son of Yasir Bin Hamud, a member of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party, taken at the southern end of Jabal Hafit (Jebel Hafeet) near Al Qabil....