Thesiger's party in the Empty Quarter Frame:natural

Thesiger's party in the Empty Quarter Frame:naturalView of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party crossing the Uruq al Shaiba, the highest sand dunes in the desert of the Empty Quarter (Rub' al Khali). 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.

wearing a felt hat and a sheepskin jacket

Portrait of two young Arab boys loading a donkey with filled water skins in front of a wall in Kuwait City

one white and one brown

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

All the women wear sheila (head cloths) over their upper bodies

playing the African game of mancala

Group portrait of three boys

View of a tiger

In the foreground a man and a boy relax in shallow water on the right

In the far background the square Shindagha watchtower is visible standing high over the district

with bundles of reeds lying on the ground

A saluki hunting dog lies sleeping in the sand at the base of the wakir