Das Reitkameel (Hèdjīn) des Scherīf Jah̲ja, eines Sohnes des Scherīf Ah̲med, dessen Vater der berühmte 1886 verstorbene Grossscherīf Abd èl-Mut̲t̲álib ... mit einer reich mit Silber gestickten Satteldecke (batāt). Den Zaum hält der Sklave Jah̲ja's; neben diesem steht Jah̲ja selbst im Reiteranzug und links in langen Kleidern zwei Scherife niedrigeren Ranges

Photograph shows four members of a ruling family of Mecca standing with a camel which is wearing a highly ornamented saddle of wool panels with silver embroidery, Mecca, Saudi Arabia.
Title from caption list in portfolio.
Caption continues: "vergl. über diesen letzten König Mekka's vom alten Schlage Mekka, Bd. I, S. 166ff, 174ff." Translation: compare this to the latest King of Mecca from the old shots, Volume I, page 166 ff., 174 ff.
Plate no. XVII in portfolio: Bilder aus Mekka, C. Snouck Hurgronje. Leiden : E. J. Brill, 1889.
Photograph attributed to al-Sayyid ʻAbd al-Ghaffār by scholar Claude Sui. (Source: "Travel to the Holy Land and photography in the nineteenth century" by Claude Sui. Chapter in: To the Holy Lands: Pilgrimage centres from Mecca and Medina to Jerusalem. Mannheim: Reiss-Engelhorn Museum, 2008, pages 56-63)
Stamped with chop of former owner: Minami Manshū Tetsudō Kabushiki Kaisha Tōa Keizai Chōsakyoku zōsho no in (in position of Southern Manchuria Railroad Co. East Asia Economic Research Division).