Preparing a meal Arabia

Preparing a meal ArabiaView of three men, members of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party, sitting on the ground, preparing a meal. 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.

a square block with small windows

In the foreground a few women walk on the road

Portrait of a young boy

A narrow street at Damascus with tall houses on both sides

View of a distinctive form of large sand dune (known as qaid) in the Sahma sands

Blood pools in the rocks beneath the donkey

carries a dead MacQueen's Bustard (houbara) by its legs

are enclosed by a large fence

He has drawn the water up in a leather bucket and is emptying it into a trough next to the well

Group portrait of four men

In the far right background a second camel lies couched in the sand

and holding his upper body to the mast with a length of rope around his shoulders