View of Wilfred Thesiger's party ... Africa 2

View of Wilfred Thesiger's party ... Africa 2View of Wilfred Thesiger's party riding camels across a sand flat dotted with scattered vegetation in the Ramlat as Sahmah. 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.

with its head turned slightly towards the foreground

resting her head on her hand

In the background another large tree grows in the distance on the vast flat plain dotted with vegetation

wearing a dagger in scabbard across his waist

and many of the ship's ribs stick out over the boat's hull

The shaven head hair styles are very youthful and would have been a fashion in the period for young women

On the left three men stand next to a couched camel

odunga or luth

In the distance more ghada trees grow on low rolling sands

'[a]s the village is located in a very fertile portion of the Rio Grande valley the inhabitants are devoted to pastural and agricultural pursuits

and a young boy

heading from the right to the left