Thesiger Collection

View of people at a weekly market near Mullu.Due to the nature of these images, prints will reproduce any signs of age, wear or damage that occurred before they were...

A large number of Dinka men, standing and sitting, holding spears and ambatch parrying shields at a funeral dance near Malakal. Dances were frequent occurrences, and often accompanied events such...

View of Mount Ololokwe, with goats grazing in the foreground.Due to the nature of these images, prints will reproduce any signs of age, wear or damage that occurred before they...

Portrait of a young moran (warrior), standing, holding a spear.Due to the nature of these images, prints will reproduce any signs of age, wear or damage that occurred before they...

Portrait of a young Shilluk man, standing, wearing a headdress and neck ornaments, and holding a spear and ambatch parrying shield in his left hand.Due to the nature of these...

People at the market in Bati.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 Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party on the road between Bardai and Aouzou in the Tibesti range of mountains.Due to the nature of these images, prints will reproduce any signs...

View of two men wrestling during a funeral ceremony.Due to the nature of these images, prints will reproduce any signs of age, wear or damage that occurred before they were...

View of Dinka men carrying spears (and wearing dance ormanents and accessories) at a funeral dance near Malakal. Dances were frequent occurrences, and often accompanied events such as marriages and...

Portrait of Wilfred Thesiger, standing, with Lokuyie, one of his servants, with hills in the distance.Due to the nature of these images, prints will reproduce any signs of age, wear...

View of people gathered outside the monolithic rock-hewn church of Mariam at Lalibela after a Sunday service.Due to the nature of these images, prints will reproduce any signs of age,...

View of people at the weekly market in Lalibela, with a large tree prominent in the foreground, and round houses in the distance.Due to the nature of these images, prints...

View of the monolithic rock-hewn church known as Golgotha at Lalibela, with a priest standing by its entrance.Due to the nature of these images, prints will reproduce any signs of...

View of people at the market in Bati.Due to the nature of these images, prints will reproduce any signs of age, wear or damage that occurred before they were archived...

Portrait of a young man (named Lokuyie), one of Wilfred Thesiger's servants.Due to the nature of these images, prints will reproduce any signs of age, wear or damage that occurred...

View of a round house at Lalibela, with a man standing in front of its doorway.Due to the nature of these images, prints will reproduce any signs of age, wear...

Portrait of a Shilluk man carrying a wooden club over his right shoulder, with several other men standing behind him, and a hut in the distance.Due to the nature of...

Portrait of John Newbould, standing, holding the neck of a pelican on the shore of Lake Natron.Due to the nature of these images, prints will reproduce any signs of age,...

Group portrait of Abyssinian 'Patriot' soldiers, as the resistance forces were known, armed with captured Italian rifles.Due to the nature of these images, prints will reproduce any signs of age,...

View of the landscape around Emi Koussi (3,415 metres), an extinct volcano and the highest mountain in the Tibesti range.Due to the nature of these images, prints will reproduce any...