Close up portrait of Mabarak ... Frame:none

Close up portrait of Mabarak ... Frame:noneClose 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.

standing among his flock

View of buildings and the landscape surrounding the city of Jeddah or At Taif

Further back a larger dhow and a rowboat are beached in low water

A boat is moored along the side of the boom

In the foreground are two boys

In the distance groves of palm trees grow in the wadi behind the city

The sand dune rises to a high uneven crest in the far background

with two people sitting on the ground in front of it

Sahail bin Tahi

which is dotted with salt bushes

In the foreground the bow of a beached dhow sits on the shore

Seated group portrait of three Wahiba Bedouin in the Wadi Halfayn