Wilfred Thesiger's party at a ... Arabia

Wilfred Thesiger's party at a ... ArabiaWilfred Thesiger's party at a settlement at Fughmah. 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.

895 metres)

A woman in black carries a basket on her head past houses lining a Dubai street

Behind the huts is a large two storey building

while in the distance beyond high ridged dunes rise along the horizon

On the left a young man wears a waistcoat and a khanjar (dagger) in a scabbard over his thobe (ankle-length shirt)

and four of his Nuer porters

In the foreground two large bushes grow on a flat sandy area in a vast rolling plain

the first stage in the building of a mashuf (canoe)

which sits below a high plateau in the background

Side view of two booms

View of rope sellers at an open air market in the city of Sabya

Group portrait of three young Arab boys in the Wadi Yiba