Group portrait of Mohammed bin ... Size:medium

Group portrait of Mohammed bin ... Size:mediumGroup portrait of Mohammed bin Ibrahim Az Saqa standing with members of his family on the steps of their home in the town of Qasam. Mohammed bin Ibrahim Az Saqa and his family were Wilfred Thesiger's hosts during his visit to Qasam. 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 foreground a dry bush pokes out of a sloping expanse of wind-rippled sand

View of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party trekking across a plain between mountain ridges in the Al Ghamid tribal region

The sheep carries a pair of saddle bags containing his master's barley flour

On the far left Hamad

make some pretence to believe in the rites which are therein performed

kneels in the centre

The walls of the fort are decorated with triangular projections along the top edge

with mountains in the Karakoram range rising above it at either side

View of the snow-capped Mount Kilimanjaro (5

Members of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party

outside Al Muwaiji Fort in Al Ain

brocade holy water bottles and felt and leather boots