Wilfred Thesiger's party preparing for ... Africa

Wilfred Thesiger's party preparing for ... AfricaWilfred Thesiger's party preparing for their journey to Al Mukalla at the RAF camp in Salalah. A group of men in the foreground. A couched camel on the right. A herd of camels behind the men. Buildings behind the camels and to the right. 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 samurai and officer (performing the function of deputy secretary) on the 1864 Ikeda mission to France

View of a vast sandy wadi in the Bani Hilal tribal area near Jabal Sharif

Portrait of a boy

A few trees grow on the plain

View of a herd of cattle standing amongst small domed huts at Shehara cattle camp on the Jarbayb Plain

She is wearing an embroidered wolllen manta

one of Wilfred Thesiger's Bedouin guides

stands facing towards the right on a stretch of sand dotted with qassis (sedge)

In the distance the party's camels graze on scattered vegetation growing on rolling sands

The man sits facing towards the right

The Potala

posing next to a trilith monument at Mudayy