Thesiger Collection

View of a young man ploughing the soil behind a team of two yoked cattle.Due to the nature of these images, prints will reproduce any signs of age, wear or...

View of a castellated fortress at Gondar, taken from the (seventeenth-century) castle of Fasilidas.Due to the nature of these images, prints will reproduce any signs of age, wear or damage...

View of the northern escarpment of the Simien range of mountains.Due to the nature of these images, prints will reproduce any signs of age, wear or damage that occurred before...

Portrait of a Samburu moran (warrior). He has braided hair, is adorned with red ochre paint and white markings on his cheeks, and wears beaded ornaments around his head and...

View of the Tisisat Falls on the Blue Nile soon after the river's emergence from Lake Tana.Due to the nature of these images, prints will reproduce any signs of age,...

Portrait of a man, squatting on rocks on Mount Hendren, holding a rifle in his right hand.Due to the nature of these images, prints will reproduce any signs of age,...

Group portrait of a man (named Mangasha), a Fitaurari (or commander of the spearhead), and his wife, seated outside their house, and their two sons standing behind them.Due to the...

View of a tankwa (papyrus canoe) in which two men are standing, both holding poling sticks, on Lake Tana.Due to the nature of these images, prints will reproduce any signs...

View of men gathered around several large bundles of giant reeds, or qasab [phragmites communis], making preparations to build a new mudhif (guest house) for Hamud. Due to the nature...

View of Samburu women shaving their sons' heads on the eve of their circumcision.Due to the nature of these images, prints will reproduce any signs of age, wear or damage...

Portrait of a man, standing.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 looking eastwards along (the south side of) the Bashilo gorge, with a man sitting on a rocky ledge in the foreground.Due to the nature of these images, prints will...

Portrait of a man (named Mangasha), a Fitaurari (or commander of the spearhead), and his wife, seated outside their house.Due to the nature of these images, prints will reproduce any...

Portrait of an elderly man, sitting under a canopy.Due to the nature of these images, prints will reproduce any signs of age, wear or damage that occurred before they were...

Interior view of the mudhif (guest house) belonging to Mahalhal, with a boy standing by the doorway.Due to the nature of these images, prints will reproduce any signs of age,...

Portrait of Salim bin Kabina, one of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling companions, sitting astride a saddled camel, carrying a rifle under his left arm.Due to the nature of these images, prints...

View of a saddled thoroughbred Batina camel belonging to Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan.Due to the nature of these images, prints will reproduce any signs of age, wear or...

Portrait of a man, kneeling on the ground, wearing a dagger in a scabbard across his waist, laughing.Due to the nature of these images, prints will reproduce any signs of...

Portrait of a girl watering goats at a well; she is wearing an item of metal jewellery on her forehead.Due to the nature of these images, prints will reproduce any...

Exterior view of the mudhif (guest house) belonging to Mahalhal, with a crowd gathered in the foreground.Due to the nature of these images, prints will reproduce any signs of age,...