View of a ruined building ... Size:large

View of a ruined building ... Size:largeView of a ruined building in New Sabya (Sabya al Jadid). 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.

preparing ochre

] The people of Santa Clara have no knowledge or tradition regarding these caves but say they belong to the "Ancients"

who is probably in training for the priesthood

in the Rub' al Khali (Empty Quarter)

with a young man standing in the foreground

which rises to a crest in the central distance

its head (covered with a hood) turned towards the left

On the right two porters carry cargo on their shoulders

photographed at Buraymi

In the foreground Wilfred Thesiger's Bedouin companions unsaddle the party's camels beside a large sand dune

Behind her

where the British Mission to Lhasa under Sir Basil Gould resided