View of a crowd of ... Images of Wilfred Thesiger

View of a crowd of ... Images of Wilfred ThesigerView of a crowd of men at Suq al Sabt market below Jabal Mana'. A large stone buildings is visible in the background behind the crowd. 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.

playing rgyal ling oboes outside the walls of Melong Tradun monastery on the Tibet Bhutan border

The large stone building is covered in plaster and has large wooden lintels over the door and window

They have several storeys

A man climbs a rope up the face of the tower towards an opening above him

Each man wears a khanjar (dagger) on a cartridge belt over his thobe (long shirt)

standing outside the Great chorten at Gyantse

This image was taken during Wilfred Thesiger's May 18-28

and in the far distance there is a line of trees

a Sayid (person having or claiming descent from the Prophet)

The two men stand side by side in front of a stone wall

In background small shrubs and bushes grow on a flat expanse of sand sitting below a sky dotted with a few fluffy clouds

View of Wilfred Thesiger's expedition party setting out from the Awash Station at the start of his 1933-4 Awash expedition