Crossing the Webi Shebeli river Images of Wilfred Thesiger

Crossing the Webi Shebeli river Images of Wilfred ThesigerView of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party crossing the Webi Shebeli river. 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.

with members of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party resting with their mules near a chorten in the foreground

View of people gathered under trees on a bank of the Turkwel River

One half is two storeys high

and the third from the rear mast

In the foreground a boom sits in calm water rippled by gentle waves below a cloudless sky

and his wife

Blood pools in the rocks beneath the donkey

It is built in the traditional style for this region from adobe bricks topped with parallel lines of raqf (slate) tiles

wearing a black felt hat

a sheikh of the Musaifar lineage of Rashid Bedouin

Exterior view of a mudhif (guest house)

View of haran salt bush growing in the Sahma sands