View of locals at a ... Frame:gold

View of locals at a ... Frame:goldView of locals at a water reservoir in the Al Hasa Oasis. In the foreground a man and two children stand with a pair of donkeys at the edge of the water. In the background a wall with a large sluice gate runs along the far side of the lake. Palm trees grow in an plantation behind the gate. 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.

taken in the region between Wadi Madi and Al Mukalla

In the background two storey buildings fronted with wooden canopies line the square

stands next to a well pouring water into a mud trough

In the foreground a Bedouin woman (likely from the Awamir Bedouin) stands at the entrance to a tent

In background

which is covered with a large high canopy

stands in the foreground facing towards the left

in Al Humrah sands during the party's journey to Umm az Zumul

holding a water skin

View of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party resting in the Dhafara sands in the Empty Quarter (Rub' al Khali)

which is surrounded by high mountain ridges

An older man with a bushy grey beard kneels in soft sand facing forward