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 group of men and boys stand before a low stone house beneath a rock face. Captioned "Notre maison et nos hôtes à Djoulamerk (Kurdistan)" in Henry Binder's album; the hosts are not named and are possibly Assyrian, as Julamerk lay in the Assyrian Hakkari highlands.

Henry Binder's lodging and hosts at Julamerk, Hakkari

Eight Assyrian men from Hakkari in turbans, sashes and embroidered jackets pose indoors; two elders standing at the back wear fur-trimmed shoulder pieces. About 1900.

Hakkari Assyrian men, c. 1900

An Assyrian family stands in front of a two-storey dry-stone house with a timber roof, mountains rising behind, in Hakkari about 1900.

Assyrian family before a stone house in Hakkari, c. 1900

About twenty barefoot Assyrian boys and girls in long shirts, sashes and caps stand in a field before a poplar grove in a Hakkari village, about 1900.

Assyrian children in a remote village of Hakkari, c. 1900

RAF aerial view of the roofless, burned-out houses of Batarshah in northern Iraq, which IWM describes as an Assyrian village destroyed by Arabs and Kurds during the disturbances of August 1933.

Batarshah, an Assyrian village destroyed in August 1933

Hand-coloured lithograph of a Nestorian girl in a red dress, green trousers and white headscarf, carrying a clay water jar on her back.

A Nestorian (Assyrian) girl carrying water, 1843 lithograph

Men and women in the embroidered dress of the Assyrian mountain tribes standing against a wall, two of them working with long poles, possibly pounding grain.

Nestorians (Assyrians) from the mountains

A large crowd of men, women and children, captioned "Nestorians from the Plain", gathered in a field. Likely the Urmia plain of north-west Persia, the subject of the book.

Nestorians (Assyrians) from the plain

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

Assyrian women in headdresses seated around a heap of winnowed grain on a roof at Bibaydi, picking out grit and stones. Taken before 1914.

Syrian (Assyrian) women cleaning grain on the roofs at Bibaydi

A group of Assyrian men in mountain dress standing in a loose ring on the flat roofs of Bibaydi, possibly dancing, with onlookers along a shaded house front. Taken before 1914.

Mountain Syrians (Assyrians) on the roofs at Bibaydi

Terraced stone houses and poplars of the village of Zawitha in Lower Tkhuma, below high mountains. Taken before 1914.

Village of Zawitha, Lower Tkhuma

The stone house of Malik Ismail, the Assyrian tribal chief, among boulders and trees at Chumba in Tiyari. Taken before 1914.

Malik Ismail's house at Chumba, Tiyari

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

A group of Assyrian men, described as "mountain Syrians", standing and sitting on a flat roof at Malikta in Berwar, in front of the open belai (roofed summer room). Taken before 1914.

Mountain Syrians (Assyrians) on a house-top at Malikta, Berwar

Pack animals and men outside the stone house of the village head man at Malikta in Berwar, on the Wigram brothers' travels through the Assyrian mountain villages. Taken before 1914.

A halt for the night at Malikta, Berwar

Two white bell tents and a brushwood shelter pitched on the open steppe, with people and belongings around them, captioned as an Assyrian shepherd camp near Tel Tamar; photographed on John D. Whiting's April 1939 trip through the Jazira.

Assyrian shepherd camp near Tel Tamer, 1939

A row of large wooden irrigation wheels turning in a channel off the Khabur, captioned as "primitive irrigating water-wheels erected by Assyrians" at the refugee villages near Tel Tamer, 21 July 1938.

Water wheels built by Assyrian settlers on the Khabur, 1938

A barefoot woman in a headscarf and patterned blouse spins wool yarn in front of a domed mud-brick doorway, beside a wooden ladder; the caption notes the women still spun yarn and knitted socks from it. Tel Tamer on the Khabur, 21 July 1938.

Assyrian woman spinning wool at Tel Tamer, 1938

A woman with long braids crouches beside a large copper pot on an outdoor hearth against a mud-brick wall, with a second woman standing nearby, in what the caption calls an "out-door kitchen." Tel Tamer on the Khabur, 21 July 1938.

Assyrian women at an outdoor kitchen, Tel Tamer, 1938

A woman in a head wrap and patterned dress pounds burghul in a stone mortar in a mud-brick lane while children watch from behind a wall. Tel Tamer on the Khabur, 21 July 1938.

Assyrian woman pounding burghul at Tel Tamer, 1938

Two women in headscarves, embroidered jackets and long skirts work a goatskin churn slung from a wooden tripod in a courtyard. Newton & Co lantern slide no. 52 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 "Butter-making in goat-skin Churns (Nestorians, Armenia)" and by D'Allemagne (1911) as Armenian women making butter.

Nestorian (Assyrian) women churning butter in a goatskin

Women sit outside a doorway with stacks of thin flatbread, a dough tray and a stone hand mill, which one woman turns with a wooden handle; a child holding a cat sits among them and a young woman with a basket stands at right. Newton & Co lantern slide no. 49 from the series "The Persians, Kurds, and Nestorians, their manners and customs", attributed by the Nelson Collection to Ernest Hoeltzer, late 19th century; D'Allemagne (1911) captions it "Femmes Nestoriennes broyant le grain ou le sel et fabriquant le pain" (Nestorian women grinding grain or salt and making bread).

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