View of Wilfred Thesiger's party ... Size:largeView of Wilfred Thesiger's party travelling from the Khawr bin 'Atarit well in the Ghanim Sands to the Ramlat al Ghafah. 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.
In the foreground Wilfred Thesiger's Bedouin travelling party walk and ride their camels along a high mountain pass
Further beyond the kotias
On the left Salim bin Ghabaisha
The man on the right wears a dark waistcoat over his thobe
The building is made of stone with ornamental stonework
Four Maids of Honour and two assistants who will serve chang or barley beer to the Yaso officials at the ceremony of the Preparation of the Camp at Lubu
in which there is a cargo of dry reeds
In the background a herd of goats wait near the well
Seated portrait of Wilfred Thesiger taken during his party's journey from the As Saruq sands to Abu Dhabi near the end of his second journey across the Empty Quarter (Rub' al Khali)
Seated portrait of two Qara tribesmen in Wadi Nihiz in the Jabal Qara mountains
Muhammad bin Fadil sits astride his camel
Behind him a pile of firewood sits in the sand on the right
