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 Mass in the rite of the Syrian (Syriac) Church in the pavilion of the Papal States at the 1937 International Exposition in Paris; the caption places Cardinal Tappouni at the centre of the clergy at the altar.

Syriac-rite Mass with Cardinal Tappouni at the 1937 Paris Exposition

Clergy and guests gather on the steps of the Church of Saint-Ephrem des Syriens in Paris on 6 October 1929. The caption names, from left, Mgr Ignace Tappouni, General Gouraud and Mgr Khayatte; processional crosses rise behind them.

Ignace Tappouni, General Gouraud and Mgr Khayatte at Saint-Ephrem

Mgr Khayatte kneels before the altar, surrounded by clergy and altar servers, as he is raised to the rank of chorbishop at the Church of Saint-Ephrem des Syriens in Paris on 6 October 1929.

Mgr Khayatte raised to chorbishop at Saint-Ephrem, Paris

A priest in vestments kneels to wash the feet of a boy seated among a row of children at the Church of Saint-Ephrem des Syriens in Paris, during the Holy Week foot-washing ceremony, April 1933.

Foot-washing at the Syriac church of Saint-Ephrem, Paris

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 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.

Syriac-rite Mass with Cardinal Tappouni at the 1937 Paris Exposition

Ignace Tappouni, General Gouraud and Mgr Khayatte at Saint-Ephrem

Mgr Khayatte raised to chorbishop at Saint-Ephrem, Paris

Foot-washing at the Syriac church of Saint-Ephrem, Paris

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