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

View of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling ... Frame:naturalView of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party resting in camp in the Wadi Qa'ah. 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.

The Mission team called themselves the Mission Marmots

the end being tightly inserted beneath the last layer of buckskin to hold it in place

Wilfred Thesiger's Bedouin companions lead camels towards the horizon

and a small rowboat is moored in the water at the right

Spectators can be seen lining the Potala steps below the banners

the mountain overlooking Drepung Monastery

kneels in the sand alongside some supplies

In the central foreground a small boat

on the top of the head by wrapping them securely with raw-hide thongs

in a state of disrepair

wide-brimmed straw hats

Near the centre of the creek two large dhows (sailboats) sit in the water