View of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling ... Africa 2

View of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling ... Africa 2View of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party riding in the Wadi Andhur. 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 picture shows some of the details of hair-dressing among the [Hopi]

He wears a floral ghutra (headscarf) with a very thick agal (head rope) and holds a rifle in a protective leather sleeve

Several hundred years old 30ft high Buddha figure

Wilfred Thesiger is seated in the sand

The boy stands at the centre right

View of a shop

View of Wilfred Thesiger's party resting in sand dunes west of Wadi Samhan

Shongopavi 'is located on the point of a mesa which projects out into the plain

A second man stands at the far right

beached on wooden piles

The sea around the dhows is gently rippled by the wind

In the foreground three men stand amongst four camels couched in the sand