View of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling ... Africa

View of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling ... AfricaView of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party trekking through the region of the Wadi al 'Ayn. Wilfred Thesiger's Bedouin companions lead their camels down a windswept dune. Clusters of small trees or bushes grown on the dunes behind them. 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.

Portrait of a man and a young boy of the Sa'ar Bedouin sitting in front of a cave in the Raydat as Say'ar

In front of him a tea urn sits beside a bag in the sand while nearby a coffee urn heats on the fire

View of Seiyun surrounded by palm trees

sitting astride a saddled yak

rolling dunes dotted with clumps of vegetation continue into the far distance

The landscape surrounding the men is a vast expanse of low dunes

View of one of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party's camels in the Dhafara sands in the Empty Quarter (Rub' al Khali)

the highest mountain in Africa

and slope across the far distance towards the right

where the mountain Jebel Hafeet (Jabal Hafit) rises above the horizon

Just behind her two men stand holding their hands near their mouths and looking into the near foreground

All three men are tribesmen of the Bayt Imani lineage of Rashid Bedouin