Half length portrait of Bil ... Frame:naturalHalf length portrait of Bil Ghaith, one of Wilfred Thesiger's Hejaz guides, crouching on the ground in the region between the towns of Najran and 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
preparing to load the gear onto the camels
In the foreground small tents and donkeys
with small wooden balconies
Behind him a man sits on a camel
towers high above the 'arish compound
Wilfred Thesiger's Bedouin companions walk in a line
He wears a ghutra (headscarf) with a head rope and a thobe (long shirt) topped with a belt and a khanjar (dagger)
View of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party watering at a river in the Wadi Qana during their journey towards the village of Makha'il
carrying a machine-gun a carrying over his right shoulder
a retainer of Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan
View of two camels couched on the Corniche at Sharjah Creek
Horsemen in ceremonial dress and wearing conical hats with brims carrying banners and standards surmounted by tridents
