Half length profile portrait of ... Africa 2

Half length profile portrait of ... Africa 2Half length profile portrait of Bil Ghaith, one of Wilfred Thesiger's Hejaz guides, in Jizan. 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.

One of Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan's retainers smoking a pipe

Monks carrying banners waiting in the procession below the Potala at the Sertreng festival held on the 30th day of the second Tibetan month

In the background a building sits behind a low ridge of sand

In the foreground a Bedouin man rides a camel beside a large tree growing on a flat plain

over his thobe (shirt)

Three saddled camels are couched on a small patch of sandy ground in a bare rocky plain

View of a door with carved wooden decoration

facing towards the right

Wilfred Thesiger sits leaning against a mud wall with one arm resting on his knee and a camel stick resting on his shoulder

View of Bakhtiari nomads with a large flock of sheep

View of a crowd of people standing on a small dune in front of Al Muwaiji fort in Al Ain

which is layered with fine sand