View of three members of ... Size:large

View of three members of ... Size:largeView of three members of Wilfred Thesiger's party watering camels at a well in the Ghanim Sands, during the party's journey from Khasfah well to Matki well. 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.

Behind him on the left a tree casts shade over a palm fence

Two of the men stand

standing in the doorway of a yurt

grazing in the Ramlat as Sahmah

kneeling on the ground during the party's journey from Wadi Animrit to the town of Al-Saum

Portrait of a boy of the Bayt Kathir Bedouin in Dhofar

View of a group of Sa'ar Bedouin from the Bin Maaruf lineage on the move with their camels at Manwakh well

and closer still to the camera the collector James Stevenson can be seen talking with a local inhabitant

Behind him a herd of goats and some couched camels rest in the sand

the ends of which are supported on ornate gilt trumpet stands decorated with eight auspicious Buddhist emblems and floral motifs

In the near left foreground a kotia sits in choppy water with its sails tied down and its bow pointing towards the right

looking out into the distance