View out across a bare ... Alfred Maudslay

View out across a bare ... Alfred MaudslayView out across a bare wadi bed strewn with gravel near Andhur spring in Wadi Andhur. 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.

In the left foreground three of Wilfred Thesiger's Rashid Bedouin companions lead camels across sand dotted with tufts of qassis (sedge)

with a shrine visible in the foreground

In his right hand he holds a large curved dagger

In the foreground a lifeboat filled with sails and rigging sits on the deck of a dhow

Behind on the left a number of camels are couched in the sand

Potala can be faintly seen in the far distance

and a large dagger in a scabbard across his waist

A vast area of rolling dunes spreads out into the far distance behind

the 'dwellings of the Pueblo have dwindled down to two stor[eys] in height

of an unfinished house

on top of which camel bones are piled

Seated half length portrait of an Arab man