Thesiger Collection

Interior view of a mudhif (guest house).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 the Chamar valley, with snow-covered mountains in the distance.Due to the nature of these images, prints will reproduce any signs of age, wear or damage that occurred before...

View of houses at Pashagar, with supporting beams protuding through their outside walls.Due to the nature of these images, prints will reproduce any signs of age, wear or damage that...

Group portrait of five men and two boys, sitting on the ground.Due to the nature of these images, prints will reproduce any signs of age, wear or damage that occurred...

Portrait of a 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 Rivers...

Portrait of a young man, carrying a bag on his back.Due to the nature of these images, prints will reproduce any signs of age, wear or damage that occurred before...

Portrait of a man, standing, carrying on his back a tool used for stranding cotton.Due to the nature of these images, prints will reproduce any signs of age, wear or...

View of a river flowing down the Alingar valley, with mountains in the distance.Due to the nature of these images, prints will reproduce any signs of age, wear or damage...

View of three men, two standing and one sitting, at an ailoq (herdsmen's summer pasture camp) in the Wanasgul valley, with mountains in the distance.Due to the nature of these...

Group portrait of two men and a boy, standing, wearing plaited conical hats (typical of the Tihama region of Yemen).Due to the nature of these images, prints will reproduce any...

Portrait of a young man, sitting.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 two young Samburu men wearing black skin cloaks, identifying them as currently undergoing the initiation ceremony.Due to the nature of these images, prints will reproduce any signs of...

Portrait of a young Samburu man holding a bow and blunted arrows, taken shortly after his circumcision. He still wears the black skin cloak and has also been adorned with...

View of Wilfred Thesiger's tarada (sheikh's canoe), with its prow prominent in the foreground, in which Hasan bin Manati, one of Wilfred Thesiger's canoe-boys, is sitting.Due to the nature of...

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

View of a Samburu man lighting a fire on which the meat of oxen will be roasted during 'The Ceremony of the Arrows' which marks the end of the circumcision...

View of a large flock of vultures and marabou storks surrounding an unseen carcass. A hyena can be seen approaching the flock.Due to the nature of these images, prints will...

View of the prow of Wilfred Thesiger's tarada (sheikh's canoe), being towed with a rope by three young men walking at the water's edge.Due to the nature of these images,...

Close-up of a Samburu initiate decorated with ochre paint and ear ornaments at the end of the circumcision rites.Due to the nature of these images, prints will reproduce any signs...

View of buffaloes in the water at Abu Laila.Due to the nature of these images, prints will reproduce any signs of age, wear or damage that occurred before they were...