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

Malik Ismail II sits in a dark robe surrounded by his grandchildren, with four sons standing behind in bandoliers holding rifles; a Russian caption runs along the bottom. The Commons description names the sons as Daniel, Shlimon, Yaqou (later Malik Yaqou) and Dinkha.

Malik Ismail II of Upper Tiyari with his sons and grandchildren, 1912

Studio portrait of a Nestorian Christian family in Persia: two men stand behind seated women and girls in floral dresses, embroidered caps and necklaces, before a painted backdrop. Glass-plate photograph by Antoin Sevruguin, likely late 19th or early 20th century.

Nestorian (Assyrian) Christian family, studio portrait by Sevruguin

Engraving of two men in felt caps, a woman and a small child, captioned "A Syrian family", printed in Bird's letter written from the house of the Patriarch, likely at Qudshanis in Hakkari.

A Syrian (Assyrian) family, 1891 engraving

Hand-coloured lithograph of a Nestorian mother in a checked shawl and red dress standing beside her small daughter in a green coat.

A Nestorian (Assyrian) mother and her little girl, 1843 lithograph

Studio portrait of the Rev. K. Odisho with his children, described as members of the persecuted Christian church in Urmia. Taken before 1916.

Rev. K. Odisho and his children, Urmia

A woman in a white headscarf sits at a hand-cranked sewing machine beside a seated toddler, while a boy stands behind a wooden cradle in front of a whitewashed wall and window. Recorded as Armenia, circa 1938.

Assyrian family at home with a sewing machine, Armenia

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

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

Stera and Warina, survivors of the massacres

St Peter and St Paul Syriac Orthodox church, Hallunda

Faces, places & memories of the Assyrian people.