Thesiger's party in the Empty Quarter Iraq

Thesiger's party in the Empty Quarter IraqView of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party in the desert of the Empty Quarter (Rub' al Khali), with abal bushes growing on the sand dunes. 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.

View of kasbahs (fortresses and surrounding quarters) at Ghasat

Stacked rice-straw in a field

View of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party trekking in the Uruq al Awarik sands of the Empty Quarter (Rub' al Khali)

There is a large open space in the foreground where people can clearly be seen

View of a woman building a house

He wears a thobe (long shirt) crossed with leather bandoliers attached to a cartridge belt and an embroidered ghutra (headscarf)

Further beyond the silhouette of Dubai is visible along the far bank

He has been adorned with woman's earrings and an ostrich feather headdress

In the foreground a well topped with a wooden frame sits in the midst of a bare and parched field

stands on a bare dune facing towards the left

which he rode on the journey to Mughshin

John Verney