At Umm al Khashab. A ... Images of Wilfred Thesiger

At Umm al Khashab. A ... Images of Wilfred ThesigerAt Umm al Khashab. A boy is standing beside a well with a carrying basket. 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 large stone building is covered in plaster and has large wooden lintels over the door and window

The palace is several storeys high and has small

Two of Wilfred Thesiger's Rashid Bedouin companions make coffee beside a fire

In the foreground a line of secondary dunes ripples the surface of the near sand

and on the left two soldiers stand nearby

In the foreground a large bush grows in a hollow on a near dune

Further beyond three more members of the party ride in a line along the side of the dune

In the foreground four men holding rifles sit in rocky sand

View of a village in the Al Ghamid tribal region between the villages of Al Makhwah and Thurayban

taken from the elevated site of the castle (now destroyed) at Alamut

In the distance the high mountains of Jabal Qara are visible

Thesiger's Somali headman on his Awash expedition