Thesiger Collection

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 monolithic rock-hewn church of Emanuel at Lalibela.Due to the nature of these images, prints will reproduce any signs of age, wear or damage that occurred before they...

View of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party in Nanamsena gorge, near Aouzou, in the Tibesti range of mountains.Due to the nature of these images, prints will reproduce any signs of age,...

Group portrait of three boys, deacons, standing on a log bridge outside one of the rock-hewn churches at Lalibela.Due to the nature of these images, prints will reproduce any signs...

Portrait of two boys; they are both preparing for the priesthood.Due to the nature of these images, prints will reproduce any signs of age, wear or damage that occurred before...

View of Dinka men and women carrying spears and ambatch parrying shields (and wearing ormanents and accessories) at a funeral dance near Malakal. Dances were frequent occurrences, and often accompanied...

View of several Nuer men in dug-out canoes swimming their cattle across the Nile River below Lake No.Due to the nature of these images, prints will reproduce any signs of...

View of people gathered with laden donkeys, on their way to a circumcision lodge near Maralal. Due to the nature of these images, prints will reproduce any signs of age,...

View of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party in the Tibesti range of mountains.Due to the nature of these images, prints will reproduce any signs of age, wear or damage that occurred...

View of the kasbah (fortress and surrounding quarter) of Glaoui at Telouet in the High Atlas range of mountains.Due to the nature of these images, prints will reproduce any signs...

View of Wilfred Thesiger's Nuer porters, standing, resting, with his personal retainer Idris Daud, dressed in white, and a porter rolling up a tent in the foreground.Due to the nature...

Portrait of Idris Daud (Wilfred Thesiger's personal retainer, left), and Malo (his Nuer interpreter, right), on the upper deck of the Nile steamer Kereri, with Thesiger's hunting trophies.Due to the...

View of Mawenzi peak on Mount Kilimanjaro.Due to the nature of these images, prints will reproduce any signs of age, wear or damage that occurred before they were archived by...

View of boats beached on the island of Lamu, with the Kenyan mainland visible in the distance.Due to the nature of these images, prints will reproduce any signs of age,...

View of a house, with four people standing beside it.Due to the nature of these images, prints will reproduce any signs of age, wear or damage that occurred before they...

View of rooftops at Lamu.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...

View of two men in a mashuf (canoe), one of whom is standing, putting out (or gathering in) fishing nets.Due to the nature of these images, prints will reproduce any...

View of two men on the bank of the Kerio River.Due to the nature of these images, prints will reproduce any signs of age, wear or damage that occurred before...

View of trees in the forest on Mount Nyiru.Due to the nature of these images, prints will reproduce any signs of age, wear or damage that occurred before they were...

View of four men standing in a balam (flat-bottomed boat), gathering in fishing nets; another man crouches at the stern, maintaining the boat's balance with a pole.Due to the nature...