View of Sa'ar Bedouin watering ... Size:medium

View of Sa'ar Bedouin watering ... Size:mediumView of Sa'ar Bedouin watering at Manwakh well. In the foreground a man stands beside a hawd, a wood and leather trough, holding a water skin. Behind him a crowd of people gather around the well. 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.

The gateway to the Norbu Lingka with the main building visible through the entrance

where Wilfred Thesiger's Bedouin companions walk with their camels

and often accompanied events such as marriages and deaths

Distant view of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party at a well in Al Batin sands during their journey across the Empty Quarter (Rub' al Khali) from Al Dhafra sands to Liwa oasis

View of a boy standing in a zaima (coracle made of reeds)

He has braided hair

The women have large baskets with them

His saddled camel stands on the left

the Lord Chamberlain

View of yellow-flowering tribulus (zahra) and a sedge (qassis) growing in the desert sands some time after heavy rain

Wilfred Thesiger sits in the centre of the back row

with trees and hills in the distance behind them