Thesiger's party at Hassi well Frame:natural

Thesiger's party at Hassi well Frame:naturalView of members of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party watering their camels at Hassi well in the desert of the Empty Quarter (Rub' al Khali). 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.

According to James Stevenson's original note for this photograph (prepared circa 1885)

View of Abis village on the Hejaz plateau

Interior view of one of the tukuls

The building in the centre has open booths attached

Further back many one and two storey houses line the banks of the creek

Portrait of a young boy with an old man

The peregrine falcon perches on a falconer's arm on a mangalah (cuff) (only the falconer's arm and torso are in the picture)

In the foreground a man carrying a young boy and two women stand in a narrow street lined with shops

cattle and donkeys

in which he holds a small branch (used as a camel stick) and the reins of his camel

herding the animals in the water at Jindala

she is wearing bracelets on her arms and wrists