Portrait of a member of ... Images of Wilfred Thesiger

Portrait of a member of ... Images of Wilfred ThesigerPortrait of a member of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party riding a camel in the Wadi 'Andam. The rider is the party's guide, a tribesman of the Wahiba Bedouin. 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.

This mask represents the Guardian of the Cemetery figure who appears frequently in Tibetan drama

View of a group of men from the Bin Maaruf lineage of Sa'ar Bedouin sitting in a circle at Manwakh well

members of a camel caravan resting outside the city gates of Al Mukalla

holding a rifle across his lap

In the left foreground a peregrine falcon perches on a carved wooden wakir (block) staked in the sand

gathered next to a windbreak near a cattle byre (luak) at a cattle camp

In the distance beyond the limestone walls of Jebel Hafeet [Jabal Hafit] mountain fill the background

View of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party resting in the Wadi 'Aydim [image out of focus]

while a third camel waits beside them

The Potala from the southeast taken from the heart of the city

bushes and other vegetation growing in vast rolling sands

she is wearing bracelets on her arms and wrists