View of Shibam. ... George Dixon Aked

View of Shibam. ... George Dixon AkedView of Shibam. 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 strings of pearls

The man kneels in the foreground with a large cloth wrapped across his lap

Another dune chain rises in the background at the far right

Behind him is a vast expanse of sand

one is standing

Behind them a few laden camels are couched in the flat sand

leaving a strip of curly hair in the middle

In the right background beyond a ridge of low dunes borders the flat in the far distance

Wilfred Thesiger's party in or near Ghayl bin Yumayn

Portrait of Nura sitting with two of her three children in front of a bush at the Habarut [Habrut] wells

Wilfred Thesiger's party resting under a tree in the Wadi al Jiz'

resting with his load