View of Wilfred Thesiger's party's ... Size:large

View of Wilfred Thesiger's party's ... Size:largeView of Wilfred Thesiger's party's camels grazing during the party's journey from Khawr bin 'Atarit well in the Ghanim Sands to the Ramlat al Ghafah. 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 wears a silver embossed khanjar (dagger) on a cartridge belt over his coloured thobe (long shirt) and a ghutra (headscarf) wrapped closely around his head

Further back a number of men and women mill about amongst traders in the midst of the market

they manufacture pottery for their own use

a sheikh of the Junuba Bedouin

with buildings constructed at the top of cultivated terraces and mountains in the distance

At the far right one of the men looks through binoculars into the left distance

In the distance beyond ridges of rolling sand dunes continue to the far horizon

Gesner's Tulip by Sue Johnson 2011

a settlement for more than six centuries and the northernmost of the Rio Grande pueblos

The two villages are only separated by a break in the mesa

one of which also has a wind tower

riding on a donkey