Portrait of Nura, a woman ... George Dixon Aked

Portrait of Nura, a woman ... George Dixon AkedPortrait of Nura, a woman of the Bayt Kathir Bedouin, sitting in front of a bush at the Habarut [Habrut] wells. Wilfred Thesiger first met this woman and her three children at Habarut wells in January 1946. 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.

People are crowding around them

Further along on the right a forth man leads the party

He wears a light coloured thobe and holds a thick rope in his hands

View of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party in the Awarik sands in the Empty Quarter (Rub' al Khali)

one storey buildings line the shore

A flat dotted with sparse vegetation sits behind the ridge

Behind the fence a number of 'arish huts made of palm fronds are visible inside the enclosure

View of a member of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party walking past a date palm grove at Al 'Ayn in Mughshin Oasis

Seated group portrait of three of Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan's Bedouin retainers in Al Ain

holding it down on the sand

two pot plants on either side of him

where the British Mission under Sir Basil Gould was staying