Wilfred Thesiger Portraits of notable people

Wilfred Thesiger Portraits of notable peoplePortrait of Wilfred Thesiger standing on a river bank. 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.

as evidenced by his blocked nostrils

Full length standing portrait of two Arab men in front of a rock wall in Dubai

Portrait of a boy of the Mahra in the Wadi Kidyat

In the foreground a peregrine falcon perches facing forward on a carved wooden wakir (block)

View of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party in the Khatam sands

In the foreground a line of footprints marks the wind-rippled sand

and sand dunes in the distance

the highest mountain in Africa

Portrait of a girl

with people sitting along the walls

Just behind the dune two of Wilfred Thesiger's Bedouin travelling companions lead their camels in a line in the middle distance between low rolling downs

wearing a lion's mane headdress