Nuer porters carrying baggage Type:stretched canvas

Nuer porters carrying baggage Type:stretched canvasView of a line of Wilfred Thesiger's Nuer porters trekking through waterlogged terrain, carrying baggage over their shoulders and on their heads. 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.

Views of dhows moored off the beach at Tajura on the Djibouti coast

View of one of the dhows (sailboats) on which Wilfred Thesiger sailed through the Abu Dhabi islands with Sheikh Hazaa bin Sultan Al Nahyan and his retainers

In the far distance the crests of far dunes sit along the horizon below a vast cloudless sky

Wilfred Thesiger's party making camp beneath tall trees during the party's journey from the Wadi al 'Ayn to the Ramlat al Ghirbaniyat (Ghirbaniyat Sands)

with a seventh young boy kneeling at the far left

with beer being poured into jars

Behind him large trees grow in sandy soil

In the distance beyond a salt flat (sabkha)

An older man with a thick grey goatee sits in front of some tall dry bushes

wearing a hat)

she is wearing several bracelets on her right arm

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