View of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling ... Images of Sheikh Zayed

View of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling ... Images of Sheikh ZayedView of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party trekking in the Uruq al Awarik sands of the Empty Quarter (Rub' al Khali). 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.

then the home of Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan

He is smiling and his eyes are closed

are attached to the huts

a man and two boys

the brush end is flattened by the hand and thumb

with which the oxen are prodded

At the centre two camels walk along the crest of a small sand dune

holding harpoons and spears

In the foreground Wilfred Thesiger's Bedouin guides rest in camp in the middle of a grassy down

on which a coffee urn sits

A large dry bush grows out of sand in the left foreground

Portrait of a man from the Bayt Itbok section of the Qara tribes