View of watchtowers built of ... Size:medium

View of watchtowers built of ... Size:mediumView of watchtowers built of rammed earth near the town of Dhahran in Qahtan tribal territory. A high volcanic hill rises in the distance east of Dhahran. 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.

ride camels along the crest of a dune in the distance

holding a headrest

In the near distance a large number of men and camels gather around a walled trough at a falaj

Faris Shahin Salah (Thesiger's orderly

The man wears a light coloured thobe (shirt) and leans on a camel stick

where a further set of dunes runs along the far horizon

This man was sent by Sulaiman bin Hamyiar to accompany Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party from Al Hubi village to Al Ain

Exterior view of the mudhif (guest house) belonging to Abdullah of the Al Essa tribe

Behind them the wall is decorated with carved plaster embellishments and plants grow in the courtyard behind

View of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party camping beneath a tree in the Ramlat al Ghirbaniyat (Ghirbaniyat Sands)

standing in a doorway

and each has a barjeel (wind tower) atop its roof