View of a crowd of ... Africa 2

View of a crowd of ... Africa 2View of a crowd of locals and traders at the suq (market) in the town of Abha. In the foreground locals stand in the midst of a pack of donkeys carrying heavy loads of wood. In the background two storey buildings fronted with wooden canopies line the square. 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.

stands on the right

the son of Salih

View of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party at a well in Al Batin sands during their journey across the Empty Quarter (Rub' al Khali) from Al Dhafra sands to Liwa oasis

Seated half length portrait of a boy of the Rashid Bedouin taken by Wilfred Thesiger during his party's journey from Al Ain to Liwa oasis

wearing a dagger in scabbard across his waist

in Ras Al Khaimah Emirate

dig out a well while a few camels wait expectantly nearby

taken in 1949

photographed at Buraymi

members of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party

lie on the shore and a number of people walk across the sand

Behind him a vast flat plain dotted with scattered clumps of vegetation runs into the far distance