View of a well at ... Size:small

View of a well at ... Size:smallView of a well at a settlement in the region between the city of Abha and the village of 'Ar'arah. In the near distance a tower sits close by a shallow, rock lined creek surrounded by a few stands of vegetation. 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.

Half length profile portrait of Bil Ghaith

Nomad pilgrims walking away from the Potala in the foreground

He is carrying a wakir (block) in his right hand

Behind them a few dots of vegetation grow on a high sand dune

Three-quarter length portrait of two men

In the distance beyond shrubs and trees grow on a flat expanse of rocky sand

One of the tombs has an inscription which states it is the resting place of Sheikh Saad

The young man wears a patterned ghutra (headscarf) topped with an 'agal (head rope) and a thobe (long shirt) cinched with a cartridge belt

bordered by high mountains in the background

Terraced fields lie below the tower along the hill's right slope

with two members of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party standing on a ledge in the foreground

Musallim bin al Kamam