Half length portrait of Bil ... Type:unstretched canvas

Half length portrait of Bil ... Type:unstretched canvasHalf length portrait of Bil Ghaith, one of Wilfred Thesiger's Hejaz guides, in the village of Thurayban. 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 ghaf [Prosopis cineraria] trees growing in sands at the western end of the Wadi Mughshin

stands in the centre of a camp beside a couched camel

He wears a thobe (shirt) and a loosely tied embroidered headscarf

Behind them a few dots of vegetation grow on a high sand dune

Mishongnovi 'is but a short distance from [Shipaulovi]

people bring him food

camping under a tree

a young tribesman of the Bayt Gidad lineage of Bayt Kathir Bedouin

Standing half length portrait of two boys at Al Ma'ala harbour in the city of Aden

In the distance beyond trees grow across a vast hillside

In background small shrubs and bushes grow on a flat expanse of sand sitting below a sky dotted with a few fluffy clouds

A second pile of equipment sits in the sand on the left