Wilfred Thesiger's party at the ... Afghanistan

Wilfred Thesiger's party at the ... AfghanistanWilfred Thesiger's party at the Khawr bin 'Atarit well, north of Mughshin in the Ghanim Sands. 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.

Equipment and blankets lie in the sand surrounding the tree

In the distance a cluster of houses sits in the midst of a large valley flanked by jagged peaked mountains

Portrait of a Mungur man

while on the far right two men sit in the shade of a tree

In the near distance five of Wilfred Thesiger's Bedouin companions ride their camels in a line across a vast flat bare expanse of sand

turquoises and corals running down her hair

A cluster of multi-storeyed buildings made from rammed earth sit in the far distance

In the distance beyond lies a salt flat (sabkha) dotted with sparse vegetation

a member of Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan's hunting party

while in the far background buildings line the shores of Bahrain Island

In the background trees grow in the far distance on a flat plain

View of a woman sitting on a platform at the harbour in Kuwait City