Half length standing portrait of ... Tibet

Half length standing portrait of ... TibetHalf length standing portrait of Bil Ghaith, one of Wilfred Thesiger's Hejaz guides, near Khamis Mushait. 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.

each holding rifle

Group portrait of four Sahul Bedouin at the Ar Rumhiya wells near Ar Riyadh

facing forward

very often took over use of this camera and the fact that he is not seen in this image may be because he was the still photographer behind this image

View of the Shah Jinali Pass

The donkey's saddle is covered with a thick sheepskin blanket

View of the Taj Mahal

In the left foreground the pillar of a ruined adobe building sits in the sand

Four men sit in a semicircle beside a cloth tent erected against a low rock wall

The women are wearing fine brocade robes

taken from the Masjid-i Jami mosque ('Friday Mosque')

looking into the far right