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

Lithograph of the vaulted interior of the Church of Et-Jâhara (possibly al-Tahira) at Mosul, looking toward the carved sanctuary at the eastern end, with a robed figure in the nave.

Church of Et-Jâhara, Mosul: eastern end, 1852 lithograph

Lithograph portrait of Mar Shimoun, Patriarch of the Nestorians (the Church of the East), in a large turban and holding a staff. Frontispiece of volume 2 of Badger's The Nestorians and Their Rituals.

Mar Shimun, Patriarch of the Nestorians, 1852 lithograph

Engraving of a flat-roofed, two-storey stone house with an open upper floor in a mountain valley, with figures on a path in the foreground. Captioned "Nestorian house in the Tyari", on p. 216 of George Percy Badger's The Nestorians and Their Rituals, vol. 1 (London, 1852), where Badger describes the simple flat-roofed houses of Asheetha and the Tiyari country, some with a second storey.

Nestorian (Assyrian) house in Tiyari

Lithograph of the monastery of Mar Mattai built against the cliffs of a mountain above a rocky gorge, with small figures on the path below. The plate, captioned "Syrian convent of Mar Mattai or Sheikh Matta", faces p. 97 of George Percy Badger's The Nestorians and Their Rituals, vol. 1 (London, 1852); Badger visited the convent in 1844 and 1850 and signed his preface there in August 1850.

Syrian convent of Mar Mattai (Sheikh Matta)

Engraving captioned "Mardeen" showing two turbaned men on a crenellated stairway above a walled town on a hillside. From p. 48 of George Percy Badger's The Nestorians and Their Rituals, vol. 1 (London, 1852), in his account of reaching Mardin, which he says "commands a view of the seemingly boundless plains of Mesopotamia".

View of Mardin (Mardeen) with two men on a crenellated wall

Lithograph of two women in long white robes, tall headdresses and necklaces, one standing with a jug and one kneeling to fill a jug at a stream beside a stone wall. The plate, captioned "Jacobite females of Midyat in Gebel Toor" ("Christian Females of Midyat" in the list of plates), faces p. 55 of George Percy Badger's The Nestorians and Their Rituals, vol. 1 (London, 1852), where Badger describes Midyat as "inhabited exclusively by 450 Jacobite families".

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

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

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

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.