Portrait of a boy Iran

Portrait of a boy IranPortrait of a boy of the Mahra in the Wadi Kidyat. 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.

He still wear the black skin cloak and has also been adorned with woman's earrings and an ostrich feather headdress

Group portrait of Wilfred Thesiger with the four members of his travelling party who accompanied him on his first crossing of the Rub' al Khali (Empty Quarter)

View of round houses

The Sultan's Palace sits in the distance beyond

a samurai and officer (performing the function of first secretary) on the 1864 Ikeda mission to France

Wilfred Thesiger has described this Bedouin man both as a Mansuri (a tribesman of the Manasir Bedouin) and as a tribesman of the Murra tribe

or crowfoot (ranunculus aquatilis)

Barren gravel stretches across a vast flat to the city of Abha

This man is the son of Muhammad

with Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party crossing a gravel plain (sabkha)

protected from flooding by a low earth embankment

Portrait of a fourteen-year-old boy