View of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling ... Portraits of notable people

View of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling ... Portraits of notable peopleView of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party in the desert north of Shisr well. Men sit on their camels, which are grazing on a large mareh bush. 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.

At the centre two men stand next to a camel

The Eyemo cine camera used by the Mission can be seen on a tripod behind the group

or round thatched huts

In the distance palm trees grow along the bottom of the mountain slopes that surround Tarim

carrying a machine-gun a carrying over his right shoulder

wrapped in the goatskin cloak traditionally worn at the time of circumcision

Two men and two boys kneel in a line in at the Corniche beach in Abu Dhabi

On the far left another sailor stands beside a second mast

View of palm trees growing in a sunken garden in the Wadi Fatimah near Mecca

Drepung Monastery can be seen in the background

In the background camels wait around the well

Portrait of two young men