View of an abandoned building ... Type:unstretched canvas

View of an abandoned building ... Type:unstretched canvasView of an abandoned building at Sabya al Jadid, the old Idrisi capital. The square building is one storey tall, and its facade is covered with carved ornamental plaster work. 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.

one of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party

In the distance beyond a dhow (sailboat) sails up the creek

Interior view of one of the tukuls

Group portrait of four boys

He wears a floral ghutra (headscarf) with a very thick agal (head rope) and holds a rifle in a protective leather sleeve

The harbour at Al Mukalla

A thoroughbred Omani camel belonging to Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan stands facing forward

one white and one brown

and (the mountain) Rakaposhi rising snow-capped in the distance

Wilfred Thesiger's saluki hunting dog

while the building on the right is topped with a layer of adobe and parallel lines of raqf (slate) tiles to prevent weather erosion

The man is holding a large dagger and is standing in front of a stone wall