Portrait of Musallim bin Tafl ... Images of Wilfred Thesiger

Portrait of Musallim bin Tafl ... Images of Wilfred ThesigerPortrait of Musallim bin Tafl, a tribesman of the Bayt Kathir Bedouin and one of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling companions, standing next to a cluster of saf palms [Nannorhops arabica]. This portrait was taken during the party's journey from Wadi Musallim to Wadi Hawshi, likely in the Wadi al Ghabah. 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

who was Thesiger's Somali headman on the expedition

Potala Palace with Shö village beneath it seen from above and from the West

Supplies and equipment rest next to them in the sand

A boy on the dhow on which Thesiger traveled from Dubai to Bahrain

Performed on 2nd day of the 1st month

Salim bin Kabina (centre left)

A boy from one of the Qara tribes sits in front of a rock wall facing towards the left

All of the buildings are topped with adobe and parallel lines of raqf (slate) tiles to prevent weather erosion

View down a street in St

In the foreground Wilfred Thesiger's Bedouin companions unsaddle the party's camels beside a large sand dune

in all respects

View of buildings at Jemez pueblo