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 group of men and boys stand before a low stone house beneath a rock face. Captioned "Notre maison et nos hôtes à Djoulamerk (Kurdistan)" in Henry Binder's album; the hosts are not named and are possibly Assyrian, as Julamerk lay in the Assyrian Hakkari highlands.

Henry Binder's lodging and hosts at Julamerk, Hakkari

Eight Assyrian men from Hakkari in turbans, sashes and embroidered jackets pose indoors; two elders standing at the back wear fur-trimmed shoulder pieces. About 1900.

Hakkari Assyrian men, c. 1900

An Assyrian family stands in front of a two-storey dry-stone house with a timber roof, mountains rising behind, in Hakkari about 1900.

Assyrian family before a stone house in Hakkari, c. 1900

About twenty barefoot Assyrian boys and girls in long shirts, sashes and caps stand in a field before a poplar grove in a Hakkari village, about 1900.

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

Engraving of a barefoot Syrian (Assyrian) girl in a long dress and headscarf, carrying a load on her back, from Bird's letter on the Ashiret (tribal) Assyrians such as the Tyari.

A Syrian (Assyrian) girl, 1891 engraving

Engraving of a Syrian (Assyrian) priest in a turban and his wife in a headscarf and necklaces, seated side by side, from Bird's letters from Kurdistan.

Syrian (Assyrian) priest and his wife, 1891 engraving

Engraving of two men in felt caps, a woman and a small child, captioned "A Syrian family", printed in Bird's letter written from the house of the Patriarch, likely at Qudshanis in Hakkari.

A Syrian (Assyrian) family, 1891 engraving

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 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

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.