Thesiger companion in Kurdistan Size:small

Thesiger companion in Kurdistan Size:smallNasser Hussain, who accompanied Thesiger in Kurdistan, riding on a donkey. 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.

On the far side of the fields adobe and stone buildings in the city of Abha are clustered together

In the foreground on the left a man walks past a tent made of woven mats

Portrait of a young man with plaited hair

View of Lawi

Two of the men wear thobe (long shirts)

View of the prow of Wilfred Thesiger's tarada (sheikh's canoe)

Close-up view of an unfinished reed mat

View of the monolithic rock-hewn church of Emanuel at Lalibela

bead and metal ornaments around his neck

He wears a dark flowing bisht (robe) and a thick 'agal (head rope) over his ghutra (headscarf)

lie on the shore and a number of people walk across the sand

Beyond the camp sand dunes rise in the far background