Wilfred Thesiger's party making camp ... Images of Sheikh Zayed

Wilfred Thesiger's party making camp ... Images of Sheikh ZayedWilfred Thesiger's party making camp in the Wadi al 'Ayn. 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.

Behind them a thick cluster of salt bushes grows along the edge of a large salt flat (sabkha) between two ridges of high dunes

Palm trees grow all around

holding a rifle across his lap

and are well supplied with stone implements

Houses and a minaret in Jeddah

In the background dhows (sailboats) are beached on the shore and moored in the harbour

In the distance a minaret sits atop a mosque at the end of the street

putting out (or gathering in) fishing nets

View of a woman washing a child in the Turkwel River

Group portrait of three youths

Coffee paraphernalia

at the festival of "The Incense of the Whole World"