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Bear hunters at Qudshanis

Place: Qudshanis · today Türkiye
Date: 20th century

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.

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Wigram and Wigram, The Cradle of Mankind (1914), via Internet Archive

W. S. Bowdon · Public domain (published 1914)

Bear hunters at Qudshanis

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