Close up portrait of Bil ... Iran

Close up portrait of Bil ... IranClose up portrait of Bil Ghaith, one of Wilfred Thesiger's Hejaz guides, in the Wadi Amq. 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.

Wilfred Thesiger's party resting under trees in the Wadi 'Andam

In the foreground an man wearing a thobe (long shirt) and ghutra (headscarf) walks across a flat rocky area towards the right

On the right two 'arish huts

This is the first picture of Hamad bin Saadna taken by Wilfred Thesiger

View of the Greater Zab river flowing down a valley

The oxen are usually driven by two Indians

employed as an interpreter of Dutch and English

Some of the buildings are topped with adobe and parallel lines of raqf (slate) tiles

View of the monolithic rock-hewn church of Emanuel at Lalibela

In the background cattle are gathered in front of the camp

holding a rifle in his hands

lead a camel by its head rope up the slope