View of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling ... Africa

View of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling ... AfricaView of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party riding along Al 'Aradh in the Empty Quarter (Rub' al Khali). In the background rocky areas rise slightly above the 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.

using a large dagger to strip flesh from a bone he is holding over the mat in front of him

They both wear loincloths and collared shirts

In the background a vast flat plain dotted with bushes fills the distance

heading from the far left towards the right

In the far distance a hobbled camel wanders across the salt flat amongst scattered vegetation

with a man (named Faris Shahin Salah)

It wears a thin neck rope

which is surrounded by high mountain ridges

He wears a belt over his thobe (shirt) and a headscarf topped with an 'agal (head rope)

Talung Monastery

two men ride their camels

migrating in the autumn from the Zagros range of mountains down to the plains