Thesiger Collection

View of a street in Shibam.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 boat builder (named Haji Hamaid), standing, working on the prow of Wilfred Thesiger's tarada (sheikh's canoe).Due to the nature of these images, prints will reproduce any signs...

Portrait of a young man (named Amara bin Thuqub), formerly one of Wilfred Thesiger's canoe-boys.Due to the nature of these images, prints will reproduce any signs of age, wear or...

View of two Bin Maaruf nomads (of the Saar tribe) with two tethered and loaded camels.Due to the nature of these images, prints will reproduce any signs of age, wear...

Close-up view of an unfinished reed mat.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 a Bin Maaruf nomad (of the Saar tribe) with a camel which carries a litter made of wood and cloth on its back.Due to the nature of these...

Portrait of a Bin Maaruf nomad (of the Saar tribe), kneeling on the ground.Due to the nature of these images, prints will reproduce any signs of age, wear or damage...

View of members of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party watering their camels at Hassi well in the desert of the Empty Quarter (Rub' al Khali).Due to the nature of these images,...

View of a boy and a man, squatting, making a mat by plaiting reeds.Due to the nature of these images, prints will reproduce any signs of age, wear or damage...

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

View of a boy standing on a raft made of bulrushes, holding a poling stick, with houses in the distance.Due to the nature of these images, prints will reproduce any...

Portrait of a Suaid 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...

Thesiger's party at the start of the journey into the Empty Quarter in the Uruq al Zaza.Due to the nature of these images, prints will reproduce any signs of age,...

View of a family of Bin Maaruf nomads (of the Saar tribe) walking with tethered and loaded camels.Due to the nature of these images, prints will reproduce any signs of...

View of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party loading their camels.Due to the nature of these images, prints will reproduce any signs of age, wear or damage that occurred before they were...

Group portrait of two women and two children, relatives of Hasan bin Manati, one of Wilfred Thesiger's canoe-boys, including his mother (named Afara) sitting on the left.Due to the nature...

View of houses at Bu Mughaifat, with buffaloes swimming in the water in the foreground.Due to the nature of these images, prints will reproduce any signs of age, wear or...

View of members of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party resting with their camels.Due to the nature of these images, prints will reproduce any signs of age, wear or damage that occurred...

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

View of people standing by the entrance of a shelter, with cattle (and buffaloes) in the background.Due to the nature of these images, prints will reproduce any signs of age,...