Portrait of a guide in ... Alfred Maudslay

Portrait of a guide in ... Alfred MaudslayPortrait of a guide in Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party, a tribesman of the Wahiba Bedouin, taken during the party's journey through the upper Wadi al Batha' east of Qabil al Bu Said village. 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.

In the left background baggage lies in the sand

dried meat

sit close together on the shore

Behind her five peregrine (shahin) falcons

View of a fort or city walls in the town of Al Qatif on the Persian Gulf coast

The texts are bound with a leather strap

at his fort in the town of Ras Al Khaimah

The Thirteenth Dalai Lama (1876-1933) seated on a throne on an ornately carved and painted dais in the Norbu Lingka Palace

This image was taken during Wilfred Thesiger's journey from Al Ain to Liwa oasis

standing in front of a wall in Dubai

View of Dinka men carrying spears and ambatch parrying shields (and wearing dance ornaments and accessories) at a funeral dance near Malakal

Many of the participants are holding long sticks and wearing garlands of herbs in their hair