Thesiger Collection

View of boats filled with many people, fetching the bride for a wedding.Due to the nature of these images, prints will reproduce any signs of age, wear or damage that...

View of a member of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party in the Khatam sands.Due to the nature of these images, prints will reproduce any signs of age, wear or damage that...

A Wahiba boy at a well. He has drawn the water up in a leather bucket and is emptying it into a trough next to the well.Due to the nature...

Portrait of Salim bin Kabina, one of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling companions, sitting astride a saddled thoroughbred Wahiba camel.Due to the nature of these images, prints will reproduce any signs of...

Portrait of a Wahiba boy, 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...

Portrait of a man (named Huaishil), a sheikh of the Duru tribe, who accompanied Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party.Due to the nature of these images, prints will reproduce any signs of...

Portrait of two girls, the sisters of Amara bin Thuqub and Sabaiti bin Lazim, two of Wilfred Thesiger's canoe-boys.Due to the nature of these images, prints will reproduce any signs...

Portrait of a Wahiba boy.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...

Portrait a man, a representative of the Imam of Oman, who accompanied Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party to Muwaiji, wearing a dagger in a scabbard across his waist, and holding a...

Portrait of Musallim bin al Kamam, one of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party, standing, holding a rifle in his right hand.Due to the nature of these images, prints will reproduce any...

Close-up view of the head of a thoroughbred (female) Wahiba camel, wearing the traditional form of guiding harness.Due to the nature of these images, prints will reproduce any signs of...

A falcon sitting on a folded blanket. A protective glove used to carry a falcon lies beside the blanket.Due to the nature of these images, prints will reproduce any signs...

View of a crowd of people of the Feraigat tribe, some with rifles raised, dancing the hausa (tribal war dance) to celebrate a wedding.Due to the nature of these images,...

View of members of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party at Farai well, with a herd of black goats.Due to the nature of these images, prints will reproduce any signs of age,...

Exterior view of the mudhif (guest house) belonging to Thamir bin Hamuda of the Al Hasan tribe, with a man standing outside.Due to the nature of these images, prints will...

Portrait of a Wahiba man.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...

Portrait of a group of Turkana men with spears.Due to the nature of these images, prints will reproduce any signs of age, wear or damage that occurred before they were...

View of men filling a trough to water a herd of cattle at a well. The water is passed up the well in buckets and poured into a trough from...

View of the shrine, or imamzadeh, of Yaqub ibn Layth at Shahabad, with Bakhtiari nomads and their livestock in the foreground, on migration from the Zagros range of mountains down...

View of Bakhtiari nomads with a large flock of sheep, migrating in the autumn from the Zagros range of mountains down to the plains.Due to the nature of these images,...