Street in Shibam. Tall houses ... Images of Wilfred Thesiger

Street in Shibam. Tall houses ... Images of Wilfred ThesigerStreet in Shibam. Tall houses, several storeys high. People and camels in the street. A shrine with a cloth canopy sits in the middle of a street. 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 two storey buildings fronted with wooden canopies line the square

A house in Jeddah

He wears a light coloured thobe and holds a thick rope in his hands

Behind them bare sand stretches into the far distance

her inner robe is of silk

In the foreground two large salt bushes grow in an area of bare sand

At the far right sits a young Sheikh Mubarak bin Mohammed Al Nahyan

In the background a herd of goats wait near the well

Kusho Palhese

with (the mountain) Ras Dashan (4

Domestic building on the right hand side

Group portrait of a hunting party