View into the courtyard of ... Images of Wilfred Thesiger

View into the courtyard of ... Images of Wilfred ThesigerView into the courtyard of Al Muraba Palace in Riyadh, the home of King Abdul Aziz [Ibn Saud]. The building on the far side of the courtyard is fronted with balconies on both of its two stories. The balconies are supported by columns and decorated with ornamental stonework. 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.

Hamad bin Saadna

Four men and boys with a donkey at the well

He holds a rifle over his shoulder and leans on a camel stick

In the near distance a man stands in the middle of a vast grassy field that stretches from the foreground into the far distance

He is biting his thumbnail

Portrait of a teenaged boy from the Bani Malik tribe in the upper Wadi Damad

On the far right a second tribesman stands amongst the rocks beside the spring

He stands in a patch of sand and wears a khanjar (dagger) on a cartridge belt around his waist

leading three camels

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

A man is sitting at the water's edge

One man is leaning out of the well