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 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

Children and adults crowd long tables at an Assyrian celebration in a party hall in Örebro, around 1980.

Assyrian families at a party, Örebro

Archbishop Julius Abdulahad Gallo Shabo, head of the Syriac Orthodox Church in Sweden, stands with his staff among a crowd of men, women and children at the ceremony that precedes the building of a new Syriac Orthodox church in Varberga, Örebro, 21 February 1989.

Archbishop Julius Abdulahad Gallo Shabo at a church founding ceremony, Örebro

Six men in work overalls and caps stand together on the factory floor of the Ytong aerated-concrete works at Hällabrottet, Kumla, on 25 November 1976. A newspaper photograph captioned "Assyrier på Ytong".

Assyrian workers at the Ytong factory, Kumla

Men work on scaffolding and ladders inside the unfinished Maria church in Varberga, Örebro, beneath a round cross-shaped window, January 1990.

Building the Syriac Orthodox Maria church, Varberga, Örebro

The ochre-painted Syriac cultural centre (Syrianska kulturcentret) in the Varberga district of Örebro, photographed in evening light on 9 November 2006.

Syriac cultural centre in Varberga, Örebro

Dancers in Swedish folk costume and members of the Syriac association join hands in a line dance at the Tensta heritage festival (hembygdsfest) in 2000.

Swedish folk dancers and the Syriac association dance together, Tensta

Deacons and altar servers in white robes marked with dark crosses walk up the aisle toward the sanctuary's embroidered red curtains during the Syriac Orthodox Good Friday Mass in Hallunda, 2004.

Good Friday procession inside St Peter and St Paul, Hallunda

The priest addresses a packed congregation, many women in white head coverings, during the Syriac Orthodox Good Friday Mass at the church of St Peter and St Paul in Hallunda on 9 April 2004.

Good Friday Mass at St Peter and St Paul, Hallunda

Exterior of the red-brick Syriac Orthodox church of St Peter and St Paul in Hallunda, Botkyrka, with its gold dome and bell towers. The museum notes it was completed in 2002 and modelled on the old churches of Tur Abdin.

St Peter and St Paul Syriac Orthodox church, Hallunda

Smiling portrait of Joe Daniels, described by the Library of Congress as an Assyrian from Soviet Georgia, holding his tar, photographed for Sidney Robertson Cowell's WPA California Folk Music Project in San Francisco.

Joe Daniels, an Assyrian musician from Soviet Georgia, with his tar

Joe Daniels, described by the Library of Congress as an Assyrian from Soviet Georgia, plays a long-necked tar, photographed for Sidney Robertson Cowell's WPA California Folk Music Project in San Francisco.

Joe Daniels, an Assyrian musician from Soviet Georgia, playing the tar

Faces, places & memories of the Assyrian people.