Half length portrait of Bil ... George Dixon Aked

Half length portrait of Bil ... George Dixon AkedHalf length portrait of Bil Ghaith, one of Wilfred Thesiger's Hejaz guides, in the Wadi Hali. Bil Ghaith, a teenaged boy from the Harb Bedouin tribe of the Wadi al Ahsabah, accompanied Wilfred Thesiger on his 1946 and 1947 journeys through the Hejaz region. 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.

which rise in the distance

at a well between Jabal Sumeini and Sharjah

The hut is round with a domed roof

Behind the boys dhows (sailboats) rest in the sand

View of boats

possibly a member of Wilfred Thesiger's party

View of a member of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party standing on a pathway during the party's journey from the village of 'Ar'arah to Jabal Mana'

In the near distance a four men and a young boy (centre left) unload couched camels in the midst of a vast flat plain dotted with scattered clumps of vegetation

curly dark hair

Three people with donkeys at the well

In the background trees and bushes grow in the sand behind a ridge

In the foreground there is a road