Thesiger's party in the Empty Quarter Iraq

Thesiger's party in the Empty Quarter IraqDue 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.

The palace is several storeys tall and has round turrets on the corners of the building

posing with a falcon in the Al Khatam sands near Al Ain

Monks blowing ceremonial trumpets or radung from the roof of the Chakpori Medical College

One is holding an umbrella

wearing heavy metal jewellery on her arms

Wilfred Thesiger stands at the centre (third from left) holding a camel stick

Standing half length profile portrait of Salim bin Ghabaisha

a type of dhow) moored off the beach at Kuwait

View of terraced and cultivated fields

In the foreground 'arish huts and enclosures made from palm fronds line Dubai Creek

In the far background a number of large rocky outcroppings are visible in the right distance

a tribesman of the Bayt Imani lineage of the Rashid Bedouin