Wilfred Thesiger's party in the ... Iraq

Wilfred Thesiger's party in the ... IraqWilfred Thesiger's party in the Wadi Madi on the journey to Al Mukalla. 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.

View of Wilfred Thesiger's party travelling through the Wadi Qinab during the party's journey to Huliyah well

View of two booms (large boats

holding a cooking pot

Half length portrait of an Arab boy in the region near Jazirat Al Hamra in Ras Al Khaimah Emirate

He is holding out a metal pan of water for the camels

View of a member of Wilfred Thesiger's party standing beside a pair of couched camels in the foothills west of Batha' Badiyah

In the foreground men work in fields while in the background a number of tall square houses sit along the bottom of a hill

holding on to a long rope

He wears a light coloured thobe (long shirt) with a square patterned ghutra (headscarf) tied around his head

The man at the far left is Sadr

He wears a patterned ghutra (headscarf) tied around his head and draped down over the back of his neck and a plain light thobe (long shirt)

Group portrait of Arab teenaged boys and children in the city of Abha