View of balcony decorations in ... Frame:natural

View of balcony decorations in ... Frame:naturalView of balcony decorations in the courtyard of Al Muraba Palace in Riyadh, the home of King Abdul Aziz [Ibn Saud]. Ornamental triangular stonework decorates a second storey balcony. The balcony is supported by columns and fronts on to an interior courtyard in the palace. 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.

The view also gives a good idea of the town layout and the structure of domestic dwellings

a tribesman of the Bayt Imani lineage of Rashid Bedouin and one of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling companions

A head and shoulders profile portrait

In the distance the party's camels are grazing on one of the trees

with tall buildings at either side

Over his white thobe (shirt) he wears a khanjar (dagger) on a belt and a cartridge belt with leather suspenders

where the British Mission under Sir Basil Gould was staying

taken from the roof of Khalifa Haji Umr's kasbah (fortress)

tending a pot cooking over a fire

View of Wilfred Thesiger's party in the Wadi Jarsis in the Jabal Qara mountains

with crops piled up on the ground in the foreground

On the woman's back are large engraved discs of silver