Close up portrait of Mabarak ... IraqClose up 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.
with donkeys carrying goatskins of water (brought from the Shatt al Arab) in the foreground
stand in front of market stalls
The camel on which he sits stands in profile facing towards the right
Along the side of the gate and at the bottom of the wall the coral from which the wall is built is exposed
In the near distance a four men and a young boy (centre left) unload couched camels in the midst of a vast flat plain dotted with scattered clumps of vegetation
Frederick Spencer Chapman with rolled up trousers standing in by the Kyichu with the Potala in the background
A group of camels stand at the entrance to the sink hole at Shisr
Behind him two children sit in the entranceway of the hut
View of two men in Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party standing next to a trilith monument near Mudayy
He wears a light thobe (long shirt) with a plain ghutra (headscarf) tied at an angle around his head
In the distance beyond two of Wilfred Thesiger's Bedouin companions ride their camels across an expanse of rolling sand
These are square buildings with several storeys
