View of Wilfred Thesiger's party ... Iraq

View of Wilfred Thesiger's party ... IraqView of Wilfred Thesiger's party riding across rolling dunes in the Ramlat al Ghirbaniyat (Ghirbaniyat Sands). 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.

stupa/mandala

The man on the left holds his camel stick in the air with his right hand

In the background two sailors men work behind the dhow's sails

One camel is drinking water out of a leather water bag held by the man

In the background vegetation grows on an expanse of sand

Three coffee urns and a kettle lie beside the fire in front of them

Seated close up portrait of an elder Bedouin man at a fort (likely Al Muwaiji Fort) in Al Ain

He is stirring the contents of a pot with a stick

These knitted socks are worn in the sands during the winter and the summer in order to insulate the feet against very cold or very hot sand

holding a rope

View of a member of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party sitting on a camel in the Wadi Sayfam near Jebel Kawr

holding his hand near her udders