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 large company of Assyrian Levies gathered on a hillside above a valley near Zakho, November 1922.

Assyrian Levies on a hillside near Zakho, 1922

Levies and British officers at the salute at the Zakho Levy camp. Bell's note describes the 350 Assyrians guarding the furthest outpost, in khaki shorts and broad hats cocked up with feathers.

Assyrian Levies at the salute, Zakho camp, 1922

A group of children of Assyrian Levy soldiers stand together in a valley at the Zakho camp, with a soldier at left, November 1922.

Children of Assyrian Levies at Zakho camp, 1922

Two Assyrian Levies in mountain dress at the Zakho camp, November 1922; a second, smaller print of the pair.

Two Assyrian Levies at Zakho camp, 1922 (second view)

Two Assyrian men of the Levies in mountain dress, embroidered jackets, striped trousers and tall felt hats, stand at the Levy camp at Zakho, November 1922.

Two Assyrian Levies in mountain dress at Zakho camp, 1922

Consecration of the Virgin Mary church in Paramus, 1968

Urmia refugees on horseback trekking through Bijar, 1918

View over the rooftops of Urmia

Mar Eshai Shimun with the patriarchal family, about 1924

Bear hunters at Qudshanis

Jilu Assyrian orphans breaking stones for the Persian road

Two monks at the gate of the new monastery of Rabban Hormizd, Alqosh, 1897

Al-Shahba Sports Club after winning the second division, Aleppo, 1968

Priest Abraham of Urmia, 1843 lithograph

Priest holding a gospel at the Church of the Virgin, Hah, 1909

Syrian (Assyrian) women of the Kurdistan mountains in flight

Refugee children on Christmas Day 1915, Urmia

Jilu Assyrian refugees coming over the Asadabad Pass

Syriac Catholic Patriarch Ignatius Behnam II Benni, 1898 engraving

Monastery of Mor Awgin on Mount Izla, 1909

Iraq Levy with raised dagger, photographed by Cecil Beaton, 1942

Iraq Levies recruits drilling at Habbaniya

Text and miniature, folio 21r of a Syriac lectionary, about 1220

Mrs. Khnan-Eshoo Abraham in mountain Nestorian costume

The patriarchal house at Qudshanis, 1912

Leaders of the 1898 union of Urmia Assyrians with Russian Orthodoxy

Assyrian printers at the mission press, Urmia, c. 1900

Mutrâv Paulus, Syrian Roman Catholic bishop in Mosul

Five elderly Assyrian men, Van Province

Patriarch Ruel Mar Shimun

Assyrian woman spinning wool at Tel Tamer, 1938

Six Assyrian Levies at camp in Baqubah, 1920

Rubbing of the gravestone of Elizabeth, Yangzhou, 1317

Faces, places & memories of the Assyrian people.

Assyrian Levies on a hillside near Zakho, 1922

Assyrian Levies at the salute, Zakho camp, 1922

Children of Assyrian Levies at Zakho camp, 1922

Two Assyrian Levies at Zakho camp, 1922 (second view)

Two Assyrian Levies in mountain dress at Zakho camp, 1922

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