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

Engraving of the stone church of Mar Shalita at Kochanes (Qudshanis), the patriarchal seat, with its graveyard, trees and grazing animals below the mountains.

Church of Mar Shalita, Qudshanis, 1891 engraving

View of the village of Qudshanis (Quchanis), seat of the Patriarch of the Church of the East, with trees and houses in a mountain valley. Taken before 1916.

Village of Qudshanis, the patriarchal seat

A group of armed men in mountain dress at Qudshanis, the patriarchal village in Hakkari, posing with the bear they have killed. From a photograph by the Rev. W. S. Bowdon of the Archbishop of Canterbury's Assyrian Mission; taken before 1914.

Bear hunters at Qudshanis

Drawing of the dark interior of the church of Mar Shalitha at Qudshanis, seat of the Patriarch of the Church of the East, with the arches to the sanctuary and sacristy and offerings of herbs hanging from the beams.

Interior of the church of Mar Shalitha, Qudshanis

Rows of armed men in tall white felt hats, rifles upright, line a field below a cliff; in front of them one man in a long coat stands while another crouches on the ground. The source title translates as "Reception of the Assyrians' melik in Qochanis".

Reception of an Assyrian malik (tribal chief) at Qudshanis

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

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.

Church of Mar Shalita, Qudshanis, 1891 engraving

Village of Qudshanis, the patriarchal seat

Bear hunters at Qudshanis

Interior of the church of Mar Shalitha, Qudshanis

Reception of an Assyrian malik (tribal chief) at Qudshanis

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