View of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling ... Type:stretched canvas

View of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling ... Type:stretched canvasView of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party watering camels at a pool in the Wadi Darbat in the Jabal Qara 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.

Large hadh (Cornulaca monacantha) bushes grow scattered across the sands behind him

In the distance beyond many people rest with their animals in a large open area beside a high walled building

beneath which many men rest

and in the distance a steep mountain overlooks the town

The falcon

A small rowboat is lashed to the near side of the stern along the keel of the dhow

In the background many more buildings are visible in the city

holding a rope

a woman Wilfred Thesiger met at Mudayy in the Wadi 'Aydim

On the left behind the men camels are couched in the sand

sits on the ground wearing a thobe (shirt) topped with leather suspenders and a cartridge belt and a ghutra (headscarf)

a Kuwaiti built trading vessel