Desert vegetation Miscellaneous

Desert vegetation MiscellaneousView of yellow flowering tribulus (zahra) and a sedge (qassis) growing in the desert sands some time after heavy rain. 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.

Portrait of two women

Merchants sit at stalls that line both sides of the market aisle

Further along the aisle people walk through the market

A third man sits on a rock and watches the action

He is scratching his cheek with his thumb and wears a khanjar (dagger) on a cartridge belt over his thobe (shirt) and a white headscarf

a type of dhow) in the harbour at Dubai

View of the Hunza valley

View of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party riding camels across the barren steppes of Jaddat al Harasis

sitting on the ground

View of members of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party descending a sand dune in the desert of the Empty Quarter (Rub' al Khali)

with Warad

with a camel walking in the foreground