View of two members of ... Special Orders

View of two members of ... Special OrdersView of two members of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party near Shisr well. 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.

In the background locals mill amongst the traders

Portrait of a group of male Samburu youths wearing black skin cloaks

which rise to a dune crest in the far background

View of Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan's hunting party at a well in Al Khatam sands near Al Ain

Portrait of a young man of the 'Ifaar Bedouin at the Habarut wells

View glacial mounds

a number of large salt bushes dot its edge

A wakir (block) lies in the man's lap

and there are carved screens in front of the windows

View of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party resting in the Dhafara sands in the Empty Quarter (Rub' al Khali)

standing in the Empty Quarter (Rub' al Khali) during the party's journey from Jaladah plain to Bani Ma'arid sands

In the far distance at the left a salt flat (sabkha) lies below a high dune massif rising along the horizon