View of a valley in ... Special Orders

View of a valley in ... Special OrdersView of a valley in the region north of the city of Ad Dali' in Ad Dali' Governorate. In the foreground large boulders rest on a steeply sloping hillside. In the distance a cluster of houses sits in the midst of a large valley flanked by jagged peaked mountains. 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.

on their way to a circumcision lodge

In the far background high rock cliffs run along the far side of the wadi

View of locals and Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party at a well during their journey from Jabal Sumeini to Sharjah

a tribesman of the Mahra Bedouin

On the left two men sit on a mat on the deck of a dhow

Portrait of children riding a donkey cart on the shore in Manama on Bahrain Island

Thesiger's party making camp under a tree between Buraimi and Dubai

wearing strappings which rope them together

Lhasa mummer wearing a mask representing an Indian Saddhu

a string is tightly wrapped

the ends are then sewed together

View of locals strolling through a suq (market) in the city of Dubai