View of Wilfred Thesiger's party ... Size:large

View of Wilfred Thesiger's party ... Size:largeView of Wilfred Thesiger's party travelling in the region of Kidan plains (Suhul al Kidan) or Al Batin sands in the Empty Quarter (Rub' al Khali). Wilfred Thesiger's Bedouin companions lead pairs of camels through an area of softly rolling dunes. 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 foreground a boom sits in calm water rippled by gentle waves below a cloudless sky

on the opposite bank of the creek

near Salalah

Large shadow cast in the bottom right hand corner of the image

View of three members of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party

In the distance beyond a vast sand flat

Next to Musallim bin Tafl sit two men from Muhammad's family

and around the butt of it

Each of the three men wears a thobe (long shirt) and a headscarf (ghutra)

with two boys standing on steps by its entrance

standing with a tethered camel

cutting the skin off the camel's back