Wilfred Thesiger with companions Size:medium

Wilfred Thesiger with companions Size:mediumGroup portrait of Wilfred Thesiger (centre) and two members of his travelling party: Muhammad bin Kalut and Sultan. 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.

There is a very good view of the metal 'umbrella' at the top of the chorten

View of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party resting in the Jaub depression in desert of the Empty Quarter (Rub' al Khali)

He is wearing a silver-sheathed dagger on a cartridge belt over his thobe (shirt)

which are auspicious emblems used as roof decoration

View of Wilfred Thesiger's party travelling from Khawr bin 'Atarit well in the Ghanim Sands to the Ramlat al Ghafah

another saddled camel is couched by some bushes

dry bushes and dunes

In the near distance sits a cluster of one and two storey buildings built from adobe bricks topped with parallel lines of raqf (slate) tiles

in his lap

In the central distance a square stone watchtower

and centre of a vessel filled with men

sits between the dunes