View of locals walking down ... Frame:natural

View of locals walking down ... Frame:naturalView of locals walking down a street in the city of Seiyun. In the background Al Habshi Tomb is visible at the end of the street. 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.

A two storey barjeel (wind tower) atop its roof

In the central foreground a tall date palm grows in the sand amongst scattered salt bushes and clumps of qassis (sedge) on a salt flat

In the right background a few dhows are moored

Close-up portrait of Kendawi

In the foreground a line of tracks cross the middle of a large sloping expanse of sand

Behind a vast white sabkha (salt flat) lies beyond the downs

Close up portrait of a Baluchi porter

View of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party resting on a plain between mountain ridges in the region near Jibal Al ad Duwayni

Some of the buildings are topped with adobe and parallel lines of raqf (slate) tiles to prevent weather erosion

and a dog lie in front of a striped tent of belonging to a group of Manasir Bedouin

ocean-going boom

View of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party crossing over dunes in the 'Uruq ash Shaybah sands of the Empty Quarter (Rub' al Khali)