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

A boy, a woman in a long dress and other residents walk along a dusty lane between mud-brick shelters with a tethered donkey in the Nestorian refugee camp in Baghdad, 1927. From Barclay Acheson's Near East Relief photographs.

Shelters in the Nestorian (Assyrian) refugee camp, Baghdad, 1927

Two men stand beside a small whitewashed mud-brick church with two windows under tall date palms, captioned as the Protestant church in the Assyrian camp, Baghdad, 1927. From Barclay Acheson's Near East Relief photographs.

Protestant church in the Assyrian camp, Baghdad, 1927

Women and girls with tins and buckets crowd around two large water tanks at the Nestorian refugee camp in Baghdad, 1927, while men stand on the tank platform. From Barclay Acheson's Near East Relief photographs.

Water supply at the Nestorian (Assyrian) refugee camp, Baghdad, 1927

Six priests and deacons of the Church of the East in mountain dress and turbans, three seated and three standing, in front of a tent at Baghdad in 1919.

Priests and deacons of the Nestorian (Assyrian) church, Baghdad, 1919

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.

Shelters in the Nestorian (Assyrian) refugee camp, Baghdad, 1927

Protestant church in the Assyrian camp, Baghdad, 1927

Water supply at the Nestorian (Assyrian) refugee camp, Baghdad, 1927

Priests and deacons of the Nestorian (Assyrian) church, Baghdad, 1919

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