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

View of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling ... Frame:goldView of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party trekking towards high dunes in the Empty Quarter (Rub' al Khali) during the party's journey from Jaladah plain to Bani Ma'arid sands. Overhead clouds cast dark shadows over the dunes, which rise in the distance. 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.

An elder Bedouin man with a long goatee sits with his body facing towards the left and his head turned forward

holding a peregrine falcon in the Al Khatam sands near Al Ain

View of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party resting in the Sharqiyah Sands during the party's journey from Tawi Harian well to Batha' Badiyah

View of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party walking across a dune in the Ramlat ar Rabbad sands

He holds a hooded peregrine falcon on a mangalah (cuff) on his left arm

holding a double-stringed bow used to shoot stones

stands at the opening of the well pulling on a rope

Portrait of a tribesman of the Bani Malik in the Bani Malik Mountains

View of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party riding camels through the Wadi al 'Arad sands near Umm al Marahah

a branch of Wadi Dhahaban

Portrait of Sulaiman bin Said

one riding an ox (rwath)