View of three men in ... Special Orders

View of three men in ... Special OrdersView of three men in Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party loading a couched camel on a road in the Bani Malik Mountains. 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.

Camel tracks cross the sand from the near right foreground to where four of Wilfred Thesiger's Rashid Bedouin companions ride camels up the dune

Landscape of small shrubs and gravel in the Wadi Shalhamit

Standing half length portrait of Salim bin Ham

His camel stands on a clump of sedge on the side of a sand dune

The falcon

He is wearing a garland of sweet herbs in his hair and carries a water skin

Portrait of two boys sitting in front of a stone wall in the village of Al Makhwah

On the right a second pair of men steer the ship's tiller

Around them small bushes grow on the rocky floor of the vast flat plain

View of members of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party watering their camels at Hassi well in the desert of the Empty Quarter (Rub' al Khali)

In the far background more wind-rippled dunes

On the left a few bushes grow beside a large rock shelf projecting out of the valley floor