Close up profile portrait of ... Size:smallClose up profile portrait of Mabarak, one of Wilfred Thesiger's Hejaz guides, 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.
Scattered patches of grass grow on the dry ground
while a man on the far right leads a saddled camel by its head rope past piles of gear in the sand
View of the monolithic rock-hewn church of Giorgis at Lalibela
In the foreground the crest of a low
wearing Tibetan dress known as ringyen for New Year celebrations
A number of Wilfred Thesiger's Bedouin companions gather with their camels at a falaj in the midst of a large flat plain
Ceremonial stand for a pair of radung or extendable ceremonial horns
View of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party crossing a gravel plain in the Hadhramaut
In the foreground a few boys and men
with Irhil M'Goun (4
his head turned towards the left
In the first row Mabkhaut bin Arbain
