Wilfred Thesiger's party in the ... Frame:gold

Wilfred Thesiger's party in the ... Frame:goldWilfred Thesiger's party in the desert at Dahal well. A square building sits on top of a bare hill. 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.

riding a camel in the Jiddat al Harasis during the party's journey from Boi well to Yisub well

View of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party trekking along a mountain path in the mountainous region between the town of Ad Dhafir and Jabal Baydan

In the distance is a vast salt flat

An Arab man sits on a stoney hillside

A man wearing a headscarf

View of one of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling companions standing with two camels in a gravelly wadi bed in the Wadi Tayyah

Portrait of two boys of the Manahil Bedouin at Fughmah

View of Gyantse showing Kumbum

Behind them a third member of the party follows

One of the men is pointing a rifle at another man

In the distance the party's camels graze on an abal [Calligonum comosum] bush

He holds a rifle and a camel stick and is drinking from a small cup