Close up portrait of Bil ... Jacques-Philippe PotteauClose up 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.
In the background limestone walls rise on either side of the narrow valley
In the foreground is a very small
outside Al Muwaiji fort in Al Ain
In the foreground a Bedouin woman (likely from the Awamir Bedouin) stands at the entrance to a tent
View of mud and stone buildings in the coastal city of Al Birk
View of sailors on the deck of a dhow (sailboat) travelling through the Persian Gulf from Dubai to Bahrain Island
View of tents at Wilfred Thesiger's camp at the Awash Station
Portrait of a young man of the Harasis Bedouin in the Jiddat al Harasis at Boi well
Portrait of a man
Four falconers holding peregrine falcons sit on their camels in a vast expanse of flat sand dotted with tufts of qassis (sedge) and other vegetation
To the right are two small round towers
View of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party watering at a well in the Wadi Halfayn
