In this black and white photograph there are three men sitting down in the front row with a child standing between each man. In the background are 7 men standing and one child. The men and children are all wearing slightly different variations of thobes (white long robes), ghutras (head scarves) which are checked, solid white or solid dark color held in place by agals (double bands of dark rope) and bisht or mishlah (finely-woven cloak) which is worn over the thobe.

King Abdul Aziz Al-Saud (Ibn Saud) in 1910


This photo was taken by Shakespear in March 1910 in Kuwait town where Ibn Saud, man sitting on the far left, was visiting his old friend Mubarak, third man sitting from the left.

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