Seated portrait of a boy ... Sue Johnson

Seated portrait of a boy ... Sue JohnsonSeated portrait of a boy of the Mahra Bedouin in the Wadi Kidyut. 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.

Wilfred Thesiger's party resting at Min'ar in the Wadi Kidyut

wearing a dagger in a scabbard at his waist

An elder Bedouin man with a long goatee sits with his body facing towards the left and his head turned forward

In the foreground two men bend over the opening of Furai well

A young African sailor wearing an undershirt and a wraparound skirt stands next to a mast

In the near distance a group of men unload their camels in the midst of a vast flat plain dotted with scattered clumps of vegetation

A flat dotted with sparse vegetation sits behind the ridge

Behind them a line of tree stretches off to the right

Alaiwa bin Lutaiya

grows in the foreground

Portrait of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party gathering water from a well during the party's journey from Jabal Buwaydah to the village of Al Qabil

with a man sitting at the coffee hearth and other people sitting along the walls