Crowded street in Lhasa during festival Thesiger Collection

Crowded street in Lhasa during festival Thesiger CollectionCrowds in street, leaning from windows and on rooftops waiting for a procession to pass by. Potala palace in distance. 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.

He is holding a length of rope in both hands

while in the far left distance a tree grows at the side of a sand dune

returning from market in the evening

including his mother (named Afara) sitting on the left

Behind the men 'arish huts and date palms can be seen in the far background

wearing a thick black 'agal (head rope) over his ghutra (headscarf) sits holding a young boy in his lap

one of Wilfred Thesiger's porters

Portrait of a boy with plaited hair

In the distance Jabal Harfa rises in a high rocky point at the centre of the valley

where a ridge of low dunes borders the flat along the horizon

carrying a falcon in the sands surrounding Al Ain

In the background the mountain Jabal Thahran