Half length portrait of Bil ... Arabia

Half length portrait of Bil ... ArabiaHalf 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

third from right

View of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party crossing a field near Kismim Pass in the Jabal Qara mountains

sits beside a kettle on a fire

Children and grown-ups dancing in a park near Lhasa

In the background people stand beside buildings

In the background trees grow in the sand alongside a few 'arish huts made from palm fronds

the 'hair is worn in this way so long as they remain unmarried

A man stands on the deck

A fence made of stripped palm fronds lines the outside of the tent

The tall thin towers have wooden platforms half way up the tower

Wilfred Thesiger's party in the lower Wadi 'Aydim

He is wearing a patterned izaar (skirt) and his hair is blown by the wind