Thesiger Collection

View of landscape near Kismim Pass in the Jabal Qara mountains. In the near distance a grassy down dotted with large bushes lies below a far hillside covered in deciduous...

Portrait of a boy of the Bin Maaruf lineage of Sa'ar Bedouin at Manwakh well. He is kneeling on the ground.Due to the nature of these images, prints will reproduce...

View of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party crossing high dunes in Liwa oasis. The party, made up of tribesmen of the Bayt Imani lineage of Rashid Bedouin, rides camels along the...

View of cattle grazing on a farmer's field in the Al Ghamid tribal region between the villages of Al Makhwah and Thurayban. Due to the nature of these images, prints...

Wilfred Thesiger's party in a wadi at Fughmah.Due to the nature of these images, prints will reproduce any signs of age, wear or damage that occurred before they were archived...

View of a group of people standing in front of two large dhows (sailboats) beached in shallow water on the shoreline of Kuwait City. The boats are booms, Kuwaiti built...

View of Awazim or Ajman Bedouin at a well in the region between Kuwait City and Al Qatif on the Persian Coast. In the foreground men haul water out of...

View of traders and shoppers at the open air market in the town of Qalat Bishah. In the foreground two camels sit alongside a group of Arab men and a...

Portrait of two boys at Umm al Khashab. One is wearing a straw hat.Due to the nature of these images, prints will reproduce any signs of age, wear or damage...

Portrait of the captain of a dhow, at Al Mukalla.Due to the nature of these images, prints will reproduce any signs of age, wear or damage that occurred before they...

Portrait of a peregrine falcon (shahin) with its prey, a desert hare, in the sands surrounding Al Ain. A peregrine falcon, belonging to Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan's hunting...

View of a young man on the beach in Dubai Creek. In the foreground a young man wearing an undershirt and a wraparound skirt stands in sand beside Dubai Creek....

Seated portrait of a tribesman of the Junuba Bedouin, one of the retainers of Sulaiman bin Hamyiar, in the region west of the Hamrat ad Duru. The man kneels in...

View of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party trekking across a dune towards a palm grove in Liwa oasis. In the left near distance three of Wilfred Thesiger's Rashid Bedouin companions ride...

View of a village near Lawdar in Abyan Governorate. Square stone buildings are built alongside and on top of a steeply sloping mountain. In the far right background more high...

Wilfred Thesiger's party at the Khawr bin 'Atarit well, north of Mughshin in the Ghanim Sands. Due to the nature of these images, prints will reproduce any signs of age,...

Landscape in the Wadi ad Dhila.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 boy of the Mahra Bedouin in the Jabal Qara mountains.Due to the nature of these images, prints will reproduce any signs of age, wear or damage that...

Close-up portrait of a young man of the Bayt Kathir Bedouin in the Wadi Shutaynah or Wadi 'Aydim.Due to the nature of these images, prints will reproduce any signs of...

View of a man of the Sa'ar Bedouin, possibly a member of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party, at B'ir Tamis well. In the background a palm tree grows near the well,...