Wilfred Thesiger's party in the ... Sue Johnson

Wilfred Thesiger's party in the ... Sue JohnsonWilfred Thesiger's party in the lower Wadi 'Aydim. 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.

) his tipping out

takes a photograph of an official at the ceremony to mark the return of the Reting Rinpoche to Lhasa

They are each wearing the goatskin and ostrich feather headdress associated with the circumcision ritual

Pieces of coral have been piled up on in mounds surrounding the path

View of Sultan bin Ahmad

View of shelters at an ailoq (herdsmen's summer pasture camp) on the northern slopes of the Kuh-e-Baba range of mountains

carrying a load of fodder on his back

View of a large open area in the city of Abha

On the left a member of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party loads one of two camels couched in the shade of a tall tree

which is surrounded by high mountain ridges

View of a street or alley in the suk (market) in Dubai

carrying baggage over their shoulders and on their heads