View of Wilfred Thesiger's party ... Frame:none

View of Wilfred Thesiger's party ... Frame:noneView of Wilfred Thesiger's party resting beside a stand of trees in the Wadi 'Andam, west of Qabil al Bu Said village. 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.

The falcon holds its wings out from its body in order to maintain its balance on the bustard and shield its prey from other predators

Tsarong's house in Lhasa

Some monks holding hand held drums are processing

View of the shoreline at Dubai Creek

Some of the men wear silver embossed daggers (khanjars) on belts over their shirts (thobe)

Muhammad bin Fadil's ghutra (headscarf) is blown back behind his shoulders by the wind and he holds a camel stick up in the air with one hand

The older man on the right wears a bisht (robe) over his thobe and also has a khanjar in a scabbard on a belt around his waist

Over his white thobe (shirt) he wears a khanjar (dagger) on a belt and a cartridge belt with leather suspenders

on the day of his coronation as Emperor of Abyssinia

holding spears and ambatch parrying shields at a funeral dance near Malakal

The monks wear yellow hats

carrying a wooden sword around his waist