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Nestorian (Assyrian) Christian family making butter, Mawana, Persia

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Nestorian (Assyrian) Christian family making butter, Mawana, Persia

Place
Mawana
PersiaVillage life

A group of men, women and children stand before a mud wall around a goatskin churn slung from wooden poles, which two girls in front are working. The glass negative is inscribed "Christian family at Maranah, Persia - Buttermaking"; the Library of Congress title, devised with N. Al-Jeloo, gives the village as Mawana. Undated Bain News Service negative.

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Source

Library Of Congress

Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, LC-DIG-ggbain-03078

Reference: ggbain 03078

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