View of a dhow (sailboat) ... Images of Wilfred Thesiger

View of a dhow (sailboat) ... Images of Wilfred ThesigerView of a dhow (sailboat) under repair at the harbour in Kuwait City. A few men work to repair a large beached dhow. The dhow is propped upright with wooden piles. On the right a breakwater made of stones shelters the shipyard from the tide. 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.

Half-length seated portrait of three Arab or Bedouin men in the Al Ain region

rolling sands dotted with tall thin bushes rise into dunes at the horizon

preparing ochre

The dune slopes into a deep depression on the far right

Behind them the sky is clear and empty of clouds

In the foreground a man and a boy relax in shallow water on the right

The camel is saddled with a Sa'ar saddle

The dune has steep sides which rise into a crescent-shaped crest

Group portrait of three nuns

Group portrait of a crowd of Arab men and boys in the town of Ash Shuqaiq

He wears a cartridge belt with a khanjar (dagger) over his thobe (shirt) and a headscarf topped with an 'agal (head rope)

and his sons in the Ramlat ar Rabbad for a few days during their first crossing of the Empty Quarter (Rub' al Khali) in December 1946