A line of barefoot girls in headscarves and long patterned skirts carry large clay water jars on their backs past a brick wall. Newton & Co lantern slide no. 50 from the series "The Persians, Kurds, and Nestorians, their manners and customs", attributed by the Nelson Collection to Ernest Hoeltzer, late 19th century; published in The Living Races of Mankind (1901) as "Armenians water-carrying (Nestorians)" and by D'Allemagne (1911) as "Jeunes filles Nestoriennes faisant le métier de porteuses d'eau" (young Nestorian women working as water carriers).

Nestorian (Assyrian) girls carrying water jars

Hand-coloured lithograph of a Nestorian mother in a checked shawl and red dress standing beside her small daughter in a green coat.

A Nestorian (Assyrian) mother and her little girl, 1843 lithograph

Hand-coloured lithograph of a Nestorian girl in a red dress, green trousers and white headscarf, carrying a clay water jar on her back.

A Nestorian (Assyrian) girl carrying water, 1843 lithograph

Hand-coloured lithograph of a man from the Nestorian mountain tribes in a striped coat and trousers and a blue cap, with a walking stick.

A Nestorian (Assyrian) of the mountains, 1843 lithograph

Tinted lithograph by Charles Fenderich of Mar Yohannan, bishop of Urmia, in a large striped turban and robe with his hand on his chest, above a line of Syriac script and a caption "translated by his brother and fellow laborer in the gospel, J. Perkins." The print is dedicated to the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions and was likely made during his 1842 visit to America with Justin Perkins.

Mar Yohannan, Bishop of Urmia, lithograph portrait, 1842

Patriarch Abraham Mar Shimun

Mountain refugees in the Russian consulate, Urmia

View over the rooftops of Urmia

British soldier tending a Jilu Assyrian refugee child

Assyrian children in a remote village of Hakkari, c. 1900

Assyrian woman in traditional jewellery at Tel Tamer, 1938

Map of the country of the Assyrian Christians, 1920

Malik Ismail II of Upper Tiyari at Baqubah

Assyrian fighters from Jilu, 1918

Nestorian (Assyrian) house in Tiyari

Nun with a gospel at the Church of the Virgin, Hah, 1909

A Syrian (Assyrian) girl, 1891 engraving

Two Chaldean women of Mardin

Syriac and Chaldean women and girls of Mardin province

Jilu Assyrian refugees cooking with a British soldier, 1918

Tiyari (Assyrian) refugees helped by the Armenian Committee in Urmia, 1917

Elderly Assyrian man at Tel Tamer, 1938

Assyrian refugees from Tiyari and Tkhuma encamped near Urmia, 1915

Entrance to the Syriac Orthodox church of St. Mark, Jerusalem

Syriac-rite Mass with Cardinal Tappouni at the 1937 Paris Exposition

Syriac cultural centre in Varberga, Örebro

Bear hunters at Qudshanis

Archbishop Julius Abdulahad Gallo Shabo at a church founding ceremony, Örebro

Jilu Assyrian mother giving her child a drink, 1918

Jacobite (Syriac Orthodox) women drawing water at Midyat, Tur Abdin

Nestorian (Assyrian) Christian family, studio portrait by Sevruguin

Stera and Warina, survivors of the massacres

St Peter and St Paul Syriac Orthodox church, Hallunda

Faces, places & memories of the Assyrian people.

A Nestorian (Assyrian) mother and her little girl, 1843 lithograph

A Nestorian (Assyrian) girl carrying water, 1843 lithograph

A Nestorian (Assyrian) of the mountains, 1843 lithograph

Mar Yohannan, Bishop of Urmia, lithograph portrait, 1842

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