View of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling ... Frame:black

View of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling ... Frame:blackView of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party trekking through the Ramlat ar Rabbad sands. One of Wilfred Thesiger's Bedouin companions leads a camel down the slope of a sand dune. In the background four more camels are being led across the top of the same dune by other men in the travelling party. 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.

He wears a light coloured thobe (long shirt) and a patterned headscarf (ghutra)

Seated portrait of the sheikh of Al Hubi village

a tribesman of the Al Khamis lineage of Awamir Bedouin

Some trees grow around them

A number of men are loading their camels

a sheikh of the Beit Kathir tribe and one of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party

View of Ras Dashan

The 16th Gyalwa Karmapa Rangjung Rigpe Dorje (1924-1981) wearing the black crown (shwa nag) of the Kagyud order of Buddhism seated on chair in a room in his summer palace at Tsurphu

It is wearing the traditional form of guiding harness

Drepung Monastery can be seen in the background

The man at the far left is a Sheikh of the Naim tribe

In the foreground an Arab man herds a flock of goats across a dry gravel plain