View of two camels, belonging ... Africa

View of two camels, belonging ... AfricaView of two camels, belonging to Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party, standing on a gravelly flat in the Wadi Sayfam. In the far background Jebel Kawr mountain rises above the trees in the far distance. 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.

In the distance beyond large dunes dotted with a few tufts of qassis (sedge) sit high above a far salt flat

View of a valley in the region north of the city of Ad Dali' in Ad Dali' Governorate

Men and boys at a well in a village in the lower Wadi Damad region

In the foreground Sheikh Saqr bin Mohammed Al Qasimi sits on a ledge atop his fort

Portrait of a young moran (warrior)

In the background other members of the party rest in the sand

The sand beneath the camel is entirely bare of any vegetation

and is edged with stones and thick branches

The man in the centre holds a rifle

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

behind the man

On the left a man wearing his thobe (long shirt) folded up into his belt stands on the left holding a rope