View of Wilfred Thesiger's party ... Africa

View of Wilfred Thesiger's party ... AfricaView of Wilfred Thesiger's party resting in camp in the Wadi Halfayn. In the foreground large trees grow in pebbly soil. 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.

They are heading into the far distance

Portrait of Musallim bin Al Kamam and a number of Wahiba Bedouin at Buraymah well in the Wadi Halfayn

In the near distance a large number of men and camels gather around a walled trough at a falaj

Portrait of a man standing in front of a wall at a village in Zahran tribal territory

Close up portrait of an Arab boy in the region near Jazirat Al Hamra in Ras Al Khaimah Emirate

The sands in the foreground are bare except for a few scattered twigs and a lone bush at the right

In the far distance a number of other dhows are moored in the background

View of a camel belonging to Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party grazing in sand dunes during their journey from Jabal Sumeini to Sharjah

A man wearing a plain thobe (shirt) and a headscarf topped with an 'agal (head rope) stands facing forward

View of a woman

and on the right two more members of the party sit beside a shade canopy erected in a small stand of bushes

In the background a vast rocky plain leads to a far rocky mountain