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

Stereograph of a bearded archbishop in a round hood and dark robes, wearing a large jewelled pectoral cross and encolpion, seated before a window; the card titles him "The Syrian Archbishop, head of the Syrian Christian Church of Palestine." The archbishop is not named.

The Syrian (Syriac Orthodox) archbishop in Palestine, about 1900

The arched stone entrance of the church of St. Mark on Mount Zion, Jerusalem, catalogued by the photographers as the "Syrian Church"; an inscription is carved in the lintel above the door.

Entrance to the Syriac Orthodox church of St. Mark, Jerusalem

A framed Syriac inscription set into a stone wall at the church of St. Mark on Mount Zion, captioned by the photographers as a "Syrian or Syriac inscription found under plaster about 1520 A.D."

Syriac inscription in the convent of St. Mark, Jerusalem

The interior of the church of St. Mark on Mount Zion, Jerusalem, catalogued as the "Syrian Church" and noted by the Library of Congress as also known as the Assyrian Convent of St. Mark. Hanging lamps, a carved wooden pulpit and an ornate altar screen fill the nave.

Interior of the Syriac Orthodox church of St. Mark, Jerusalem

Clergy in vestments and black hoods process across a chequered marble floor during the Orthodox Holy Fire ceremony at Easter 1941; the photographers' log names the procession as the Syrian (Syriac) Orthodox one led by Archbishop Jacob Filixinos. The ceremony is held in the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, likely the setting here.

Syriac Orthodox procession at the Holy Fire ceremony, Jerusalem, 1941

A packed Palm Sunday procession of the Syrian (Syriac) Orthodox community in Jerusalem, which the photographers' log says was led by Archbishop Jacob Filixinos. Boys in white robes carry palm fronds and tall candles through the crowd.

Syriac Orthodox Palm Sunday procession in Jerusalem, 1941

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

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.