Two Bedouin boys at Bir ... Images of Wilfred Thesiger

Two Bedouin boys at Bir ... Images of Wilfred ThesigerTwo Bedouin boys at Bir Muhammad Yahyah well near Wadi Bayd. 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.

A number of men and camels crowd around a well

View of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party trekking along a mountain path in the mountainous region between the town of Ad Dhafir and Jabal Baydan

Portrait of a elderly tribesman of the Wahiba Bedouin at Wilfred Thesiger's camp in Wadi Hawshi

The women wear sheila (head cloths) over their hair and burqa (face masks worn by married women)

An enclosed gate to the grove sits on the far left

Statues in a temple

In the left foreground one of Wilfred Thesiger's Bedouin companions is fixing the saddle on his couched camel

View of Qasr Ibrahim fort in the town of Al Hofuf in the Al Hasa Oasis

Their village

Behind him tall dry bushes grow

and holds its wings out from its body in order to maintain its balance on the bustard and shield its prey from other predators

decorated with red ochre paint on his face and around his shoulders