Half length portrait of Mabarak ... ArabiaHalf length portrait of Mabarak, one of Wilfred Thesiger's Hejaz guides, in the region between Harub village and Sabya. 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.
wearing a ghutra (headscarf) and a T-shirt
Behind them a field of grass sits below a hill covered with small bushes
View of a round hut in the Wadi 'Itwad
Behind him a few clumps of vegetation grow on the crests of low rolling dunes that stretch from the near distance into the far horizon
with a number of men on horses
View of Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan's hunting party in Al Khatam sands near Al Ain
In the foreground a few bushes grow from crevices between the rocks
is moored further out in the creek
View of sailors hoisting sails on a dhow (sailboat) travelling through the Persian Gulf from Dubai to Bahrain Island
including a metal bowl
They are possibly part of the Dalai Lama's escort on the final leg of his journey to Lhasa
while a few goats graze nearby
