View from a high dune ... AfricaView from a high dune looking down on Wilfred Thesiger's party in the Ghanim Sands, during the party's journey from Khasfah well to Matki well. The men are gathered around a well at the bottom of the dune. 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.
watercolour and pencil on paper
Group portrait of Wilfred Thesiger (centre) and two members of his travelling party: Muhammad bin Kalut and Sultan
In the far background a few bushes grow on a slope of soft sand
One is holding an umbrella
Portrait of Sheikh Rashid bin Saeed Al Maktoum
Mountain landscape in the Humaydah tribal region between Suq ath Thulutha and Wadi Hali
One of the men leads a camel on a head rope
likely built of coral and with a large barjeel on its roof
View of Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan's hunting party in Al Khatam sands near Jebel Hafeet (Jabal Hafit)
at a camp north of Al Ain during the party's journey between Al Ain and the Ramlat Unayq sands
Portrait of Salim bin Ghabaisha and Thesiger
On the left a man crouches on the ground with his rifle