View of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling ... Frame:white

View of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling ... Frame:whiteView of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party resting in the Wadi Inqudun, a branch of Wadi Dhahaban. The men stand beside their camels, which are grazing on bushes. 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.

On the far left

In the distance beyond a number of different types of dhows

On the far left a man stands amongst dry vegetation on a sand dune

Portrait of four boys in Baydayn village in Wadi Hali

He is wearing a waistcoat over his thobe (long shirt) and holds a rifle against his shoulder

A young Sheikh Mubarak bin Mohammed Al Nahyan (right) kneels in the sand next to one of Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan's retainers

In the background people walk across a vast empty area in front of a cluster of stone buildings

On the far right

In the central foreground another man stands in the shade

A group portrait of a seated woman surrounded by young women and younger girls

Three of Wilfred Thesiger's Bedouin companions lead a caravan of six camels across a flat plain dotted with large salt-bushes

and holding two spears over his right shoulder