Thesiger's tarada Type:unstretched canvas

Thesiger's tarada Type:unstretched canvasView of Wilfred Thesiger's tarada (sheikh's canoe). 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.

A pool of water in the mountains at Ayun spring

taken from the Chamar Pass

The sand beneath the camel is entirely bare of any vegetation

View of a group of men performing a dance at a circumcision ceremony in An Namas

He is posing with a bow and blunted arrows with which he has shot the birds that adorn his headband

likely a fishing dhow

Portrait of two men

run along the horizon

In the foreground the bow of a beached dhow sits on the shore

A saluki hunting dog lies sleeping in the sand at the base of the wakir

a member of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party

The tall boy on the far right is Sheikh Mubarak bin Mohammed Al Nahyan