Buildings at Sanaa Images of Wilfred Thesiger

Buildings at Sanaa Images of Wilfred ThesigerView of tall buildings at Sanaa. 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.

with a man sitting at the coffee hearth and a lamp prominent overhead

View of a member of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party (Salim bin Kabina) walking with two tethered camels in the Batin sands south of Liwa oasis

and a hooded passage peregrine falcon on a mangalah (cuff) on his left hand

In the background two storey buildings fronted with wooden canopies line the square

Dunes in the sands near Umm al Zamul

Men stand in a circle around a group of four drummers

and its tail feathers standing straight up

An Arab guide in Wilfred Thesiger's party stands in the midst of a vast rocky plant left of a large tree

with two men standing in the foreground

He is scratching his cheek with his thumb and wears a khanjar (dagger) on a cartridge belt over his thobe (shirt) and a white headscarf

with houses in the distance

In the central distance the square stone Shindagha watchtower rises high above nearby buildings