Wilfred Thesiger and E.L. Archer Frame:natural

Wilfred Thesiger and E.L. Archer Frame:naturalPortrait of Wilfred Thesiger (left) with E. L. Archer, in the Western Desert. 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.

In the left distance a large enclave of 'arish huts and enclosures made from palm fronds sit below tall buildings

In the background another camel stands on the far left

View of Wilfred Thesiger's party trekking across dunes in Al Khatam or Al Humrah sands south of Al Ain

View of two boys

Group portrait of five peregrine falcons belonging to Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan's hunting party in the Al Khatam sands near Al Ain

Portrait of Salim bin Kabina

Below them the dune is bare of all vegetation

with (the mountain) Jabal al Akhdar at the right of the image

wearing two black ostrich feathers in a band round his forehead to which he has fastened the stuffed skins of small birds he has shot with his bow and arrows

near the Dhahir mountains north of Al Ain

going to market to buy chickens

and is blinded with a leather hood