View of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling ... Special Orders

View of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling ... Special OrdersView of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party resting at the well of Ma' Shadid in the Wadi Ghudun. Wilfred Thesiger's Bedouin guides rest with their camels in the middle of a vast dry wadi dotted with a few small bushes. In the distance beyond low rock mountains rise above the horizon. 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.

A group of boys and a man with a donkey

to a considerable extent

On the far left the high jagged limestone cliffs of Jebel Hafeet [Jabal Hafit] rise above the flat

View of a members of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party sitting on a sand dune in the vicinity of the Ramlat Unayq

From it she illustrates episodes in the lives of Buddha

holding on to the head rope of a camel couched beside him

a Awamir Bedouin tribesman at a fort (likely Al Muwaiji Fort) in Al Ain

which sits in the middle of a large expanse of flat sand

a dry river bed

He is holding a camel stick and carrying a rifle

In the background a number of ghaf [Prosopis cineraria] trees grow

Each abra is covered with a cloth canopy