View of Wilfred Thesiger's party ... Size:large

View of Wilfred Thesiger's party ... Size:largeView of Wilfred Thesiger's party stopping to allow the camels to graze in the Sharqiyah Sands. A few ghaf [Prosopis cineraria] trees grow in the 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.

outside Qasr Al Hosn fort in Abu Dhabi

Behind him pictures of dhows (sailboats) have been drawn in charcoal on the side of a building

He wears a floral ghutra (headscarf) with a very thick agal (head rope) and holds a rifle in a protective leather sleeve

View of a river flowing down the Ishkoman valley

Water fills the foreground

Group portrait of people

At the centre a third member of the party is folding a large blanket

beside a hooded peregrine falcon perched on a mangalah (cuff)

He is holding on to a large sail that is spread out across the background

In the left foreground a few donkeys feed beside a building

View of men loading Wilfred Thesiger's canoes with supplies

The sand dune is dotted with vegetation