Thesiger Collection

View of tents at Wilfred Thesiger's camp at the Awash Station.Due to the nature of these images, prints will reproduce any signs of age, wear or damage that occurred before...

Group portrait of Wilfred Thesiger's Awash expedition party, including Thesiger himself (seated), Omar Ibrahim (standing behind him, wearing a turban and shorts), who was Thesiger's Somali headman on the expedition,...

Portrait of a boy, a herder, leaning on a pole.Due to the nature of these images, prints will reproduce any signs of age, wear or damage that occurred before they...

View of men on horseback at the Feast of the Throne, the annual festival marking the accession of Morocco's ruler, with a crowd of people gathered in foreground, and the...

View of four carved wooden figures marking a Konso grave. The effigies represent the dead man, flanked by his wife and killed enemies.Due to the nature of these images, prints...

View of Wilfred Thesiger's expedition party crossing the Awash River, with laden camels in the foreground.Due to the nature of these images, prints will reproduce any signs of age, wear...

Portrait of a boy, a herder.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...

View of a felucca (sailing boat) under sail on the Nile River.Due to the nature of these images, prints will reproduce any signs of age, wear or damage that occurred...

View of a man leaning on the supporting arch, formed from bundles of giant reeds, or qasab [phragmites communis], of an unfinished house.Due to the nature of these images, prints...

View of two carved wooden figures marking a Konso grave.Due to the nature of these images, prints will reproduce any signs of age, wear or damage that occurred before they...

Group portrait of boys, standing, several of whom are wearing goatskins.Due to the nature of these images, prints will reproduce any signs of age, wear or damage that occurred before...

Views of dhows moored off the beach at Tajura on the Djibouti coast, from where Wilfred Thesiger sailed after his Awash expedition.Due to the nature of these images, prints will...

Group portrait of political officers who were training for a commission in the Sudan Defence Force with the Cheshire Regiment. Wilfred Thesiger is in the middle row, third from right.Due...

Group portrait of Wilfred Thesiger (second from right), John Verney, Faris Shahin Salah (Thesiger's orderly, second from left) and another Druze soldier, standing.Due to the nature of these images, prints...

View of the monolithic rock-hewn church of Emanuel at Lalibela, with two boys standing on steps by its entrance.Due to the nature of these images, prints will reproduce any signs...

Portrait of a priest, standing in a porch of the monolithic rock-hewn church of Mariam at Lalibela, with a boy standing on the ground beside him.Due to the nature of...

Portrait of a young man (named Lokuyie), one of Wilfred Thesiger's servants.Due to the nature of these images, prints will reproduce any signs of age, wear or damage that occurred...

Portrait of a debtara (scribe), standing outside one of the rock-hewn churches at Lalibela, playing a silver church drum which he wears over shoulder.Due to the nature of these images,...

View of the monolithic rock-hewn church of Maskal at Lalibela, with four people standing beside its entrance.Due to the nature of these images, prints will reproduce any signs of age,...

View of H. G. Wederburn-Maxwell, District Commissioner of the Western Nuer District, standing, with two Nile perch caught by him and Nuer porters.Due to the nature of these images, prints...