Close up portrait of Bil ... John K. HillersClose 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.
Behind them a flock of sheep and goats waits behind the well
A boy wearing a ghutra (headscarf) and wraparound skirt stands in sand on the left
Further behind a man walks towards another man leading heavily loaded camel
Two men and three camels stand in an open sandy area in front of a number of 'arish huts made of date palm fronds
A bridge at Gyantse taken in the evening
Further back a crowd of people gathers in front of a large stone or coral building fronted with a large canopy covered with palm fronds
In his right hand he holds a large curved dagger
sitting on chair
The plain is bordered by 'arish huts and enclosures made from palm fronds
over his shoulder and holds a camel stick
Stonework walls and cropped vegetation are visible
The Potala from the southeast taken from the heart of the city
