View of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling ... Images of Sheikh Zayed

View of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling ... Images of Sheikh ZayedView of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party watering at a well in the Wadi Halfayn. 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.

leads two laden camels along a high dune ridge

with a fisherman inspecting his catch in the foreground

with a large number of people

tending cattle as they are watered at Ndedo wells

A bare flat plain runs from the foreground into the distance

the mountain overlooking Drepung Monastery

with the prow of Wilfred Thesiger's tarada (sheikh's canoe) prominent in the foreground

Four falconers holding peregrine falcons sit on their camels in a vast expanse of flat sand dotted with tufts of qassis (sedge) and other vegetation

with a river in the background

On the left a man holding a camel stick stands in front of a saddled and couched camel

Portrait of a Bedouin man in Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party at a well in the Ghanim Sands

In the foreground water-skins are loaded onto donkeys