View of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling ... Jacques-Philippe Potteau

View of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling ... Jacques-Philippe PotteauView of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party resting in the Sharqiyah Sands during the party's journey from Tawi Harian well to Batha' Badiyah. 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.

and with flat roofs

It is saddled and wearing the traditional form of guiding harness

Full length portrait of an Arab boy standing on one leg in the town of Abha

its head (covered with a hood) facing towards the ground

On the right a fourth man with another baggage camel rides past two trees growing on the side of the dune

In the foreground a young boy stands turned towards the left

A young boy stands at the centre

Alaiwa bin Lutaiya

In the background a large group of camels wait behind the well

Behind the men the background is bare and flat

Domestic building on the right hand side

one of Wilfred Thesiger's guides and a retainer to Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan