Portrait of Bil Ghaith, one ... Type:unstretched canvas

Portrait of Bil Ghaith, one ... Type:unstretched canvasPortrait of Bil Ghaith, one of Wilfred Thesiger's Hejaz guides, cooking lunch in the region between the towns of Najran and Badr. 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.

View of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party resting below the ruined fort at Shisr well

In the background

leaning slightly to the left

Wilfred Thesiger's party taking a rest in As Saruq sands north of Liwa oasis during their journey to Abu Dhabi

Wilfred Thesiger wears a cartridge belt on leather suspenders over his white thobe (shirt) and a plain headscarf topped with an 'agal (head rope)

some with several storeys

Further back people with donkeys and huts in the background

In the distance beyond trees and bushes grow amongst low sand dunes

the opening of which has been reenforced with concrete or rammed earth

standing in the Ramlat ar Rabbad sands

View of multi-storeyed buildings at Oraibi pueblo on Third Mesa

View of two small boats beached on Shindagha beach in Dubai