View of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling ... Iraq

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

The sand they are crossing is bare and marked with small wave patterns

He is holding a stick and wears a loosely tied headscarf and a dark coloured thobe (shirt)

while in front of it on the left a few more bags of cargo sit

while a sailor in a light shirt stands nearby on the right

Two boys stand holding hands in front of a beached dhow in a state of disrepair

which sits below a high plateau in the background

View of the Taj Mahal

A young man stands in front of huts in the village of Umm al Khashab

or Chikyak Khenpo

taken from near the Baroghil Pass

Standing half length portrait of an Arab man

and a silver embossed dagger (khanjar) on a leather belt