View of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling ... Images of Sheikh Zayed

View of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling ... Images of Sheikh ZayedView of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party trekking through the Bani Hilal tribal area near Jabal Sharif. A man with two camels is riding along a path. 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.

Behind them a steep mountain slope covered with trees sits in the distance

In the centre distance a lone cloud drifts over the top of the cliffs

Ladaki and Nepalese sides

with a lake in the foreground

Behind them on the left a man stands with two horses

The photograph shows the west side of a carved stone zoomorph known by archaeologists as Zoomorph P

View of buffaloes in the water at Abu Laila

He wears a ghutra (headscarf) wrapped closely around his head and a khanjar (dagger) on a cartridge belt over his coloured thobe (long shirt)

they have nevertheless retained their language with a great degree of purity

holding a camel by its head rope

The near and right portions of the plain are dotted with sparse vegetation

which was to take place later that morning