Thesiger Collection

View of a balam (flat-bottomed boat) under sail on the River Gharraf, a tributary of the Euphrates.Due to the nature of these images, prints will reproduce any signs of age,...

View of a youth, standing outside a hut with two older men, wrapped in the goatskin cloak traditionally worn at the time of circumcision, chanting the lebarta (circumcision song), with...

Portrait of a group of male Samburu youths wearing black skin cloaks, identifying them as currently undergoing the initiation ceremony.Due to the nature of these images, prints will reproduce any...

View of the unfinished structure of a raba (house), with the supporting arches formed from bundles of giant reeds, or qasab [phragmites communis], joined together at the top.Due to the...

View of cattle resting on the ground in front of a hut built within a lorora (circumcision camp) for a circumcision ceremony.Due to the nature of these images, prints will...

View of a Samburu man holding an ox still while another man lines up an arrow with the animal's jugular vein, in order to collect its blood. This is carried...

View of a young man and a boy standing amidst several wooden boats, repairing the hull of one of them.Due to the nature of these images, prints will reproduce any...

Group portrait of three youths, sitting, wrapped in the goatskin cloaks traditionally worn at the time of circumcision, and wearing black ostrich feather headdresses and holding bows and blunted arrows...

Portrait of a young Samburu man taken shortly after his circumcision. He still wears the black skin cloak.Due to the nature of these images, prints will reproduce any signs of...

View of a narrow street in Shibam, with tall houses either side.Due to the nature of these images, prints will reproduce any signs of age, wear or damage that occurred...

View of houses at a settlement near Assareg on (the mountain) Jebel Toubkal (4,167 metres) in the High Atlas range of mountains.Due to the nature of these images, prints will...

View of Bin Maaruf nomads (of the Saar tribe) watering their camels at Manwakh well.Due to the nature of these images, prints will reproduce any signs of age, wear or...

View of a Bin Maaruf nomad (of the Saar tribe) standing beside two black goat-hair tents.Due to the nature of these images, prints will reproduce any signs of age, wear...

View of a large defensive town wall, with four towers prominent, and two women at the centre of the image.Due to the nature of these images, prints will reproduce any...

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

View of a man (named Abdullah bin Maiqal), a sheikh of the Bin Maaruf nomads (of Hatim section of the Saar tribe), standing, plaiting a rope for use at Manwakh...

View of a member 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...

View of a sitra (buffalo shelter) extending from the smaller dimensions of a house, with a man standing in front of its entrance.Due to the nature of these images, prints...

View of a woman, standing, pulling on a rope to draw water at Manwakh well.Due to the nature of these images, prints will reproduce any signs of age, wear or...

View of men gathered with camels, with the head and neck of a camel prominent in the foreground.Due to the nature of these images, prints will reproduce any signs of...