View of a member of ... Sue Johnson

View of a member of ... Sue JohnsonView of a member of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party trekking between dunes in the Empty Quarter (Rub' al Khali) during the party's journey from Jaladah plain to Bani Ma'arid sands. 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.

In the distance beyond sand dunes rise in rolling ridges towards a far crest below a hazy sky

He holds a skull drum and thigh bone trumpet in his hands

A bare flat plain runs from the foreground into the distance

Here the use of skin or fibre aprons (olemo)

The 13th Dalai Lama

He has been adorned with woman's earrings and an ostrich feather headdress with small birds hanging from the back of the neck

dotted by a few clumps of scattered small vegetation

A number of men and boys rest on the deck of a sailing boat

The village fills the background

and kitchen goods

In the distance sand dunes dotted with a few tufts of qassis (sedge) stretch out in every direction

View of trees and bushes growing on a flat near the village of Thurayban