View of Wilfred Thesiger's party ... John K. Hillers

View of Wilfred Thesiger's party ... John K. HillersView of Wilfred Thesiger's party camping in the Jiddat al Harasis during the party's journey from Boi well to Yisub well. 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.

with buildings constructed at the top of cultivated terraces and mountains in the distance

The large building decorated with thick horizontal stripes of plaster is the Sultan's Palace

kneels in his saddle [most of the camel's body is outside the frame]

Members of Wilfred Thesiger's Bedouin travelling party sit around a well opening

The monument was created during the later part of the sixty-year reign of K'ak' Tiliw Chan Yopaat and marked the close of an era in the Maya calendar

likely built of coral and with a large barjeel on its roof

raised on a pile of stones

Group portrait of three young Arab boys in the Wadi Yiba

In the foreground sparse trees and bushes grow on a rock strewn plain below the slopes of Jebel Hafeet [Jabal Hafit]

while on the right

a sheikh of the Musaifar lineage of Rashid Bedouin)

In the left background behind him two small boys play in the sand in front of huts erected in the shade of tall trees