View of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling ... Alfred Maudslay

View of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling ... Alfred MaudslayView of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party riding through the Ramlat al Ghirbaniyat (Ghirbaniyat Sands). A large tree grows in the left foreground. Bushes and a few small trees grow in the sands. 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.

Behind it a man adjusts the saddle on a camel

The man wears a curved dagger in his belt

In the background at the far left a camel is couched in the sand

In the distance the limestone cliffs of Jabal Hafit (Jebel Hafeet) rise in jagged peaks high above the plain

a patterned wraparound skirt and a thobe (long shirt) rides a camel across a low sand dune towards a dry bush

In the distance beyond dry wadis (riverbeds) and low peaks stretch out towards the Rub' al Khali

The buildings have multiple storeys

In the foreground Wilfred Thesiger's Bedouin companions unsaddle the party's camels beside a large sand dune

View of a herdsboy from one of the Qara tribes standing with his cattle in the Jabal Qara mountains

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

View of a tent at an ailoq (herdsmen's summer pasture camp)

Portrait of three Qara tribesmen