View of a camel belonging ... Frame:gold

View of a camel belonging ... Frame:goldView of a camel belonging to Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party couched in the Wadi Aswad. The camel sits in the sand amongst tall clusters of vegetation growing on the flat sand. 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.

When this picture was taken Qasr Al Hosn fort was the home of Sheikh Shakhbut bin Sultan Al Nahyan

The man wears a light coloured ghutra (headscarf) hanging down over his thobe (long shirt)

People at the market in Bati

kneels beside a fire drinking from a small cup

An enclosed gate to the grove sits on the far left

with cattle (and a dog) standing outside

A man wearing a cartridge belt over his thobe (long shirt) stands in an open sandy area

grasping a camel stick in his left hand

View of Wilfred Thesiger's party resting in camp at Furai well in Sharqiyah Sands

A baggage camel follows behind the man

Behind them a third member of the party follows

View of Wilfred Thesiger's sailing companions sitting on the deck of a sailboat (dhow) in the Abu Dhabi islands