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

Girls of the Assyrian (Syriac) girls' school next to St Mary's Church in Diyarbakir, 1940s. The source says the school was founded by Viktoriya Hanım, daughter of the former Syriac Orthodox patriarch Ignatius Elias III.

Girls of the Syriac girls' school at St Mary's church, Diyarbakir, 1940s

A priest and men stand in the arcaded courtyard of the Church of El Hadra (the Virgin) in Diyarbakir, with tombs in the foreground. Likely the Syriac Orthodox church of the Virgin Mary.

Priest and men at the Church of the Virgin (El Hadra), Diyarbakir, 1909

A priest stands among fallen stones at the east end of the south aisle of the church of El Adra in Silvan, Diyarbakir province. Photographed by Gertrude Bell, 1 to 3 May 1911.

Priest in the church of the Virgin (El Adra), Silvan, 1911

A gospel book bound in repoussé silver, showing the Resurrection, propped up at the Syriac Orthodox church of the Virgin (Meryem Ana) in Diyarbakir. Bell's caption: "El 'Adra"; May 1911.

Silver gospel cover at the Syriac church of the Virgin, Diyarbakir, 1911

Oval portrait of a bearded archbishop in a dark turban and robes with a pectoral cross, captioned "His Grace, Archbishop of Diarbekir". The book concerns the Chaldean and Assyrian Christians, so he is likely the Chaldean archbishop.

Archbishop of Diyarbakir, from Naayem's book

Consecration of the Virgin Mary church in Paramus, 1968

Urmia refugees on horseback trekking through Bijar, 1918

View over the rooftops of Urmia

Mar Eshai Shimun with the patriarchal family, about 1924

Bear hunters at Qudshanis

Jilu Assyrian orphans breaking stones for the Persian road

Two monks at the gate of the new monastery of Rabban Hormizd, Alqosh, 1897

Al-Shahba Sports Club after winning the second division, Aleppo, 1968

Priest Abraham of Urmia, 1843 lithograph

Priest holding a gospel at the Church of the Virgin, Hah, 1909

Syrian (Assyrian) women of the Kurdistan mountains in flight

Refugee children on Christmas Day 1915, Urmia

Jilu Assyrian refugees coming over the Asadabad Pass

Syriac Catholic Patriarch Ignatius Behnam II Benni, 1898 engraving

Monastery of Mor Awgin on Mount Izla, 1909

Iraq Levy with raised dagger, photographed by Cecil Beaton, 1942

Iraq Levies recruits drilling at Habbaniya

Text and miniature, folio 21r of a Syriac lectionary, about 1220

Mrs. Khnan-Eshoo Abraham in mountain Nestorian costume

The patriarchal house at Qudshanis, 1912

Leaders of the 1898 union of Urmia Assyrians with Russian Orthodoxy

Assyrian printers at the mission press, Urmia, c. 1900

Mutrâv Paulus, Syrian Roman Catholic bishop in Mosul

Five elderly Assyrian men, Van Province

Patriarch Ruel Mar Shimun

Assyrian woman spinning wool at Tel Tamer, 1938

Six Assyrian Levies at camp in Baqubah, 1920

Rubbing of the gravestone of Elizabeth, Yangzhou, 1317

Faces, places & memories of the Assyrian people.

Girls of the Syriac girls' school at St Mary's church, Diyarbakir, 1940s

Priest and men at the Church of the Virgin (El Hadra), Diyarbakir, 1909

Priest in the church of the Virgin (El Adra), Silvan, 1911

Silver gospel cover at the Syriac church of the Virgin, Diyarbakir, 1911

Archbishop of Diyarbakir, from Naayem's book

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