PhotographAA-0018

Nestorian (Assyrian) women grinding grain and baking bread

Place

Persia · today Iran

Date

19th century

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).