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 long line of Jilu Assyrian recruits in tall felt caps faces a New Zealand NCO of Dunsterforce in a slouch hat at Hamadan, August 1918. Photographed by Ariel Varges.

Jilu Assyrian recruits drilling with a New Zealand NCO, Hamadan

Bare-chested Jilu Assyrian recruits line up while a British officer examines one man's eyes and other officers in pith helmets look on, August 1918. Photographed by Ariel Varges during the formation of the Urmia Brigade at Hamadan.

Medical inspection of Jilu Assyrian recruits for the Urmia Brigade

A young Assyrian man from Jilu in a felt cap, patched clothes and cloth leggings stands with a rifle over his shoulder at Hamadan, August 1918, recruited for the British-formed Urmia Brigade. Photographed by Ariel Varges.

Jilu Assyrian recruit for the Urmia Brigade at Hamadan

Rows of Assyrian Christian men from Jilu, many in torn clothes and felt caps, stand on parade at Hamadan while British NCOs drill them for service with the Urmia Brigade, August 1918. Photographed by Ariel Varges for the British Ministry of Information.

Jilu Assyrian recruits drilled at Hamadan for the Urmia Brigade

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.

Jilu Assyrian recruits drilling with a New Zealand NCO, Hamadan

Medical inspection of Jilu Assyrian recruits for the Urmia Brigade

Jilu Assyrian recruit for the Urmia Brigade at Hamadan

Jilu Assyrian recruits drilled at Hamadan for the Urmia Brigade

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