View of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling ... Size:small

View of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling ... Size:smallView of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party at a well in the Ramlat al Ghirbaniyat (Ghirbaniyat Sands). In the foreground Bedouin men stand with a group of camels around a well. Trees and bushes grow in the sand around the well. 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.

The Mission team called themselves the Mission Marmots

In the near left one of Wilfred Thesiger's Bedouin companions stands in an area of rolling downs

Group portrait of Wilfred Thesiger (centre) and members of his travelling party: Mabkhaut bin Arbain

Portrait of a young man with plaited hair

He wears a khanjar (dagger) on a cartridge belt and leather suspenders over his thobe (shirt) and a dark embroidered headscarf

pulls on the head rope of a camel standing in the middle of the camp amongst scattered piles of gear

especially the metate

In the centre two men stand beside a standing camel

Behind them a high steep sand dune dotted with clumps of vegetation fills the background

Full length standing portrait of two men in front of Al Fahidi fort in the Bastakiya Quarter

An Arab falconer in a thobe (long shirt) and ghutra (headscarf) stands in the foreground

In the near distance men ride a line of camels in single file along the rocky bottom of a wadi