Thesiger Collection

View of men in boats, spear fishing on Umm al Abid.Due to the nature of these images, prints will reproduce any signs of age, wear or damage that occurred before...

View of houses at Qabab, with the prow of Wilfred Thesiger's tarada (sheikh's canoe) prominent in the foreground.Due to the nature of these images, prints will reproduce any signs of...

Portrait of a 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 Pitt...

Portrait of a woman, sitting, resting her head on her hand.Due to the nature of these images, prints will reproduce any signs of age, wear or damage that occurred before...

View of mountains.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 Museum.

View of three men, wearing strappings which rope them together, pulling a balam (flat bottomed boat) which has its main sail raised.Due to the nature of these images, prints will...

Close-up view of the prow of a balam (flat-bottomed boat).Due to the nature of these images, prints will reproduce any signs of age, wear or damage that occurred before they...

View of Samburu initiates dancing at the end of the circumcision rites.Due to the nature of these images, prints will reproduce any signs of age, wear or damage that occurred...

Portrait of Lawi, a young Samburu man wearing a black skin cloak and tufted hair style, identifying him as currently undergoing the initiation ceremony.Due to the nature of these images,...

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...

Portrait of a youth (named Lawi Leboyare) after his circumcision, sitting, decorated with red ochre paint on his face and around his shoulders.Due to the nature of these images, prints...

Close-up portrait of a young Samburu man, taken shortly after his circumcision. He has been adorned with woman's earrings and an ostrich feather headdress with small birds hanging from the...

Portrait of a woman, standing in a doorway, at Ahansal in the High Atlas range of mountains; she is wearing beaded necklaces and metal jewellery.Due to the nature of these...

View of two boats amidst the water buttercup, or crowfoot (ranunculus aquatilis), in flower, growing in the Marshes.Due to the nature of these images, prints will reproduce any signs of...

View of two of Wilfred Thesiger's canoe-boys (named Hasan bin Manati and Sabaiti bin Lazim), paddling a canoe.Due to the nature of these images, prints will reproduce any signs of...

The Umm Qarqar spring in the Wadi Kidyat. A man is sitting at the water's edge. Palm trees grow all around.Due to the nature of these images, prints will reproduce...

Portrait of two girls, 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 Pitt...

Portrait of a Samburu boy sitting on a rock at the edge of a pool of water.Due to the nature of these images, prints will reproduce any signs of age,...

Portrait of two young Samburu men with ornamented hair and ears, both seated on the ground.Due to the nature of these images, prints will reproduce any signs of age, wear...

View of palm trees at Fuhud on the River Gharraf, a tributary of the Euphrates. In the foreground are two boys, one in a boat and the other sitting on...