View of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling ... Miscellaneous

View of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling ... MiscellaneousView of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party in the Empty Quarter (Rub' al Khali) during the party's journey from Jaladah plain to Bani Ma'arid sands. 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.

built into a cave during the twelfth century

The boys' cockscomb hair styles show that they have not yet undergone a circumcision ceremony

On the right a small fire is burning

He wears a striped blanket over his dark thobe (long shirt) and a plain ghutra (headscarf)

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Behind them a few women and men are setting up camp on the left

View of two members of Wilfred Thesiger's party riding their camels in the Ramlat as Sahmah

View of the central dome of the Masjid-i Jami mosque ('Friday Mosque') at Isfahan

Two of the men are mounted on camels

while on the right a few men are hauling water

In his right hand he holds a camel stick

He wears a plain ghutra (headscarf) topped with an 'agal (head rope) and dark thobe (shirt)