Portrait of Bil Ghaith, one ... Size:large

Portrait of Bil Ghaith, one ... Size:largePortrait of Bil Ghaith, one of Wilfred Thesiger's Hejaz guides at the settlement of Badr. 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 Museum.

holding a hooded peregrine falcon on his left arm

cutting up the meat of a slaughtered camel

In the far distance on the right a mountain rises along the horizon

on Mount Kenya

When the yarn is thus made smoothe and even

Group portrait of the Mansab of Mashhad (second from the left) standing with three other men in the town of Mashhad

This image was taken during Wilfred Thesiger's May 18-28

pouring water into a water skin

in the garden of Nechung monastery

These eagles are kept in stockade cages

On the far left a fourth member of the party crouches on the stoney ground

View of one of Wilfred Thesiger's Bedouin guides walking across a stoney plain below Jebel Hafeet [Jabal Hafit] mountain