Close up portrait of Bil ... Frame:white

Close up portrait of Bil ... Frame:whiteClose up 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 a boat carrying a load of fodder

View of houses at Assareg on (the mountain) Jebel Toubkal (4

Successive dune ridges rise from the near foreground into the far distance

On the right houses built of coral line the creek

Profile portrait of a young man of the 'Ifaar Bedouin at the Habarut wells

salt bushes are scattered across the flat

In the foreground a woman is filling a water-skin

An old man with a curly grey beard sits with a striped blanket hanging over one of his shoulders sits resting his forearms on his knees

View of a farmer's field in the Al Ghamid tribal region between the villages of Al Makhwah and Thurayban

from which a large sail flies

and bushes grow on a far hill

The young man at centre left also wears a thick 'agal (head rope) over his ghutra (headscarf)