View of Wilfred Thesiger's party ... Alfred Maudslay

View of Wilfred Thesiger's party ... Alfred MaudslayView of Wilfred Thesiger's party camping beneath a tree on a gravel wadi during the party's journey from Manwakh well to B'ir Tamis well. A high plateau rises in the right distance. 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.

A crowd of shoppers and traders gathers in the background

Large wooden chests sit under the canopy

bow pointing to the left distance

several of whom carry sticks

View of desert landscape in the 'Uruq ash Shaybah in the Rub' al Khali (Empty Quarter)

In the foreground two large salt bushes grow in an area of bare sand

Seated portrait of a young tribesman of the Manasir Bedouin in the Al Khatam sands near Al Ain

In the background a large group of camels wait behind the well

holding a large pot

The sand in the foreground is entirely bare of any vegetation

This view is looking out towards the Omani coast

smoking a water-pipe