Desert landscape in the Shib ... Frame:gold

Desert landscape in the Shib ... Frame:goldDesert landscape in the Shib Adaru wadi. 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.

According to James Stevenson's original note for this photograph (prepared circa 1885)

stands next to the well opening

then the Ruler's Representative in Al Ain

one and two storey houses made from coral are built close together

In the background the water surrounding the boat is calm and flat

Wilfred Thesiger's party at the Khawr bin 'Atarit well

Portrait of a man standing in front of a wall at a village in Zahran tribal territory

likely a tribesman of the Duru Bedouin

View of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party resting at Shisr well

Part of the Potala showing the lower part of the 13th Dalai Lama's tomb known as Serdhung Gelek Dhojo

He wears a loose ghutra (headscarf) tied with an 'agal (head rope) and a light coloured thobe (shirt)

two women and a toddler sit around the fire