Half length seated portrait of ... Africa

Half length seated portrait of ... AfricaHalf length seated portrait of Bil Ghaith, one of Wilfred Thesiger's Hejaz guides, in the region of Jabal Dhahran or the Bani Malik Mountains. 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

a style typical of unmarried girls

In the distance beyond the kotia a vast empty ocean continues to the far horizon

View of a pair of tall mud brick buildings in the village of Suhayl or the city of Seiyun

one of Wilfred Thesiger's Rashid Bedouin companions leads a camel past a patch of scattered grasses and up the bare slope of a sand dune

The child is wearing a fringed skirt and long earrings

The Prime Minister

A peregrine falcon

with a mountain in the distance

View of a group of people standing on the beach in the town of Ash Shihr

View of sailors on a dhow (sailboat) in the Persian Gulf near Dubai

In the distance beyond a second kotia is moored in the right background

built on First Mesa