This black and white photograph shows the upper part of a man sitting in a chair looking slightly to the left with a cane resting in front of him. The man is wearing a ghutra (checked head cover) held in place by an agal (thick double cord), has a mustache and a beard on the lower part of his face. The man is wearing a loose robe made of dark gauze like material over a white thobe.
King Abdul Aziz Al-Saud (Ibn Saud)


King Abdul Aziz was nearly blind and used a cane during the last few years of his life before he died in Taif, Saudi Arabia on 9 November 1953.

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