Close up portrait of Mabarak ... Pakistan

Close up portrait of Mabarak ... PakistanClose up portrait of Mabarak, one of Wilfred Thesiger's Hejaz guides, in the region between Jabal Baydan and At Taif. Mabarak, a teenaged boy from the Bani Sharfa tribe of Wadi al Ahsabah, accompanied Wilfred Thesiger on his 1946 journey 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.

Seated portrait of an elder tribesman from one of the Qara tribes in the Jabal Qara mountains

In the left foreground one of Wilfred Thesiger's Rashid Bedouin companions stands with two camels next to the opening of a well

View of Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan's hunting party at a Manasir encampment in the Al Khatam sands near Al Ain

Full length portrait of two young Bedouin boys from a camel caravan at Al Mukalla

Beside them

Four men sit in the sand facing forward

View of houses at Mangur

Half length portrait of an Arab boy in the city of Abha

The man is wearing a broad-brimmed straw hat

with three members of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party standing with laden mules in the foreground

Behind him a pile of firewood sits in the sand on the right

In the foreground one of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling companions walks with his camel across a flat rocky plain