View of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling ... Frame:natural

View of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling ... Frame:naturalView of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party crossing a rock strewn wadi bed in the region north of the town of Al Saum. 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.

with several other men standing behind him

In the distance behind him clumps of vegetation grow scattered across the sand

braiding the hair of another man

who accompanied Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party

In the background a large flat-roofed building sits on the right

The piece of turquois[e] to be drilled is placed in a suitable cavity in a block of wood and held there by the thumb of the left hand while the drill is manipulated by the right

rise high above the horizon in the far background

View of fields

A large white minaret stands at the edge of the buildings in the central distance

View of Muhammad bin Kalut and Salim bin Kabina

dancing a war dance

View of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party resting in the Wadi Haluf