Close up portrait of Mabarak ... Arabia

Close up portrait of Mabarak ... ArabiaClose up portrait of Mabarak, one of Wilfred Thesiger's Hejaz guides, sitting 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.

In the left background baggage lies in the sand

Half length portrait of a young Bedouin man

with round houses on a hillside in the distance

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

She is wearing a high conical straw hat

View of the rear of a j

View of a man walking with a camel in the sands of the 'Uruq ash Shaybah in the Rub' al Khali (Empty Quarter)

in the foreground

the 'hair is worn in this way so long as they remain unmarried

In the middle distance Wilfred Thesiger's Bedouin companions trek in a line with their camels along the slope of a large dune

In the distance the silhouettes of one and two storey houses are visible along the opposite bank

View of a crowd of men waiting at the entrance to Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan's Al Muwaiji fort