View of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling ... Frame:noneView of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party riding through sands, dotted with clumps of vegetation, in the Wadi 'Atinah. 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.
Side view of a sambuk moored along the shore of Bahrain Island
There is ornamental stonework above the door and along the front
In the far distance the crests of far dunes sit along the horizon below a vast cloudless sky
The walls are made from large rough stones fitted with small stone slivers
Nearby two donkeys and a mule stand in the tide
a tribesman of the Bayt Mbarik lineage of Rashid Bedouin and one of Wilfred Thesiger's Bedouin companions
and a man standing in the foreground
a samurai and officer (performing the function of first secretary) on the 1864 Ikeda mission to France
On the left a village of square one storey stone houses sits along the top of a low hill
Large chopa votive offerings being paraded through a crowd as part of the ceremonies of the 'Offerings of the Fifteenth'
The grain is being threshed by the mules dragging weights across the crop laid out on the ground
Portrait of Salim bin Ghabaisha