Portrait of a boy in ... Special Orders

Portrait of a boy in ... Special OrdersPortrait of a boy in the lower Wadi Damad region, east of Sabya. 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.

Marshlands behind the Potala appear to be flooded and people can be seen walking along a narrow path

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

View of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party trekking along a mountain path in the mountainous region between the town of Ad Dhafir and Jabal Baydan

View of a member of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling saddling camels during the party's journey from Manwakh well to B'ir Tamis well

'[t]his class of weaving is done exclusively by the men and the work of preparing sacred blankets is always conducted in an estufa

At the bottom of the slope five of Wilfred Thesiger's Rashid Bedouin companions lead their camels in a line towards one of four date palm groves in the far distance

the Western Gate of Lhasa

stripping meat from a camel bone

Further along large dhows (sailboats) sit in shallow water and on the beach

taken from the elevated site of the castle (now destroyed) at Alamut

In the background dunes rise

Dhows on the water