View of Wilfred Thesiger's party ... Frame:gold

View of Wilfred Thesiger's party ... Frame:goldView of Wilfred Thesiger's party camping in the Wadi Umm al Hayt. Despite a twenty five year drought, desiccated plants are still growing in the wadi. 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.

Photographic reproduction by Malcolm Osman of an original work in gouache

The falconer has a short dark beard and wears a khanjar (dagger) on a belt over his light coloured thobe (long shirt)

Bushes and trees grow around the pool

View of two members of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party standing beside a marakh bush in the lower Wadi Shihan

The boy is the son of Huaishil

View of tall square stone buildings in the city of Lawdar in Abyan Governorate

He is wearing a garland of sweet herbs in his hair

View of the Bashilo Gorge

leans against a wall facing forward

The boy on the right wears a tallit katan (a religious garment)

In the first row Musallim bin Tafl

The Thirteenth Dalai Lama (1876-1933)