Close up portrait of a ... Special Orders

Close up portrait of a ... Special OrdersClose up portrait of a tribesman of the Junuba Bedouin near Al Hubi village. The man faces forward with his head tilted down. He has a goatee beard and wears a thobe (shirt) and an embroidered headscarf. This man accompanied Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party from Al Hubi village to Al Ain. 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.

Four men work on the boom from wooden platforms that hang off its side

a type of dhow) and other boats in the harbour at Basra

Her outside robe is woollen

its face in shadow

The Assembly Hall in the "Sera Che" College at Sera

Gold victory banners seen on the parapets of the roof with the Kyichu valley in the distance below

Behind him a large bush grows in the sand

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 rolling dunes in Al Batin sands

View of a member of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party standing with a camel during the party's journey from Khawr bin 'Atarit well in the Ghanim Sands to the Ramlat al Ghafah

sits on a platform at the bow of the boat

View of a Bedouin man standing beside a palm at the Ad Dibin palm groves