Portrait of Bil Ghaith, one ... Size:small

Portrait of Bil Ghaith, one ... Size:smallPortrait of Bil Ghaith, one of Wilfred Thesiger's Hejaz guides, drinking from a small cup in Jizan. He is sitting on a carpet inside a house. 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

Behind it a few other dhows are moored in the background

Looking towards cattle standing in the centre of a Nuer homestead during a rainstorm

On the right a fourth man with another baggage camel rides past two trees growing on the side of the dune

In the centre foreground a saker (hurr) falcon perches on a wakir (block)

On the left a men man sits on a camel

one of Wilfred Thesiger's Bedouin guides

one of Wilfred Thesiger's Hejaz guides at the settlement of Badr

stands in the right foreground on the slope of a large sand dune

with balconies supported by wooden stilts

heading towards the left

one of whom also holds a rifle

a fodder crop)