View of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling ... Type:unstretched canvas

View of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling ... Type:unstretched canvasView of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party trekking towards high dunes in the Bani Ma'arid sands of the Empty Quarter (Rub' al Khali). 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.

In the distance scattered tufts of qassis (sedge) dot the sand dunes in front of them

He is wearing a light-coloured thobe (shirt) topped with a khanjar (dagger) on a cartridge belt and suspenders

Full length portrait of an Arab boy standing on one leg in the town of Abha

and has a headscarf (ghutra) draped over his head

while beyond low dunes stretch into the far horizon

Behind each man's mount baggage camels follow on leads

of Yaqub ibn Layth at Shahabad

On the left a number of camels wait for water

In the far distance a line of trees grows along the horizon

with sand dunes in the distance

Members of the 1936 British Mission to Lhasa

lie on the shore and a number of people walk across the sand