Portrait of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling ... India

Portrait of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling ... IndiaPortrait of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party gathering water from a well at the southern end of Jabal Hafit (Jebel Hafeet). In the foreground four men stand in a well, while behind them two members of the party and some camels wait behind the well. 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.

Terraced fields run across a large valley flanked by jagged peaked mountains

In the distance beyond low rolling dunes stretch out towards the horizon below a vast cloudless sky

A mountain in the background

is from the Bayt Gidad lineage of Bayt Kathir Bedouin

standing in the doorway of a yurt

the women's dress will only be discarded at the final ceremony forty days later

The bows of the dhows point towards the right

Beside him a dhow covered with a cloth shade canopy is docked along the shore

Tall trees grow in the left and right distance

Standing half length portrait of Wilfred Thesiger and Musallim bin Al Kamam on a rooftop terrace in Dubai

behind the right dune ridge

hauling on a well rope