Madan men inspecting qasab Alfred Maudslay

Madan men inspecting qasab Alfred MaudslayView of men gathered around several large bundles of giant reeds, or qasab [phragmites communis], making preparations to build a new mudhif (guest house) for Hamud. 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.

View overlooking the rooftops of buildings in the city of Shibam

wearing an animal skin around his shoulders

an ibex-hunter

with whom Wilfred Thesiger stayed for a few days during his first crossing of the Empty Quarter (Rub' al Khali)

Seated profile portrait of Salim bin Ghabaisha

Salim bin Ghabaisha crouches on a rocky outcrop looking at a piece of plant that he is holding in his hand

Portrait of two of Wilfred Thesiger's porters

Portrait of Lawi

both seated on the ground

womens' earrings and ostrich feathers in his headband after his circumcision

In the central foreground one man adjusts the saddle on a couched camel

is holding the baby's hand