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View of a member of ... Size:largeView of a member of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party riding a camel through the Empty Quarter (Rub' al Khali), during the party's journey from Jaladah plain to Bani Ma'arid sands. The man's camel is grazing on a bush. 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.

He is using a stick to poking at the fire in front of him

Each man wears a ghutra (headscarf) and a thobe (long shirt)

with two people in a canoe

In the background two low hills sit on the left

View of a woman washing a child in the Turkwel River

when the first operation is again repeated

Portrait of a man at Najran

In the foreground three members of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party stand on either side of a large tree in the midst of a vast flat plain

rides across a vast salt plain (sabkha) dotted with salt bushes

In the distance a number of booms

which was to take place later that morning

He scratches at his beard with his right hand and leans on his camel stick with his left