PhotographAA-0084

Nestorians (Assyrians) from the mountains

Date: 20th century

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.

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Shahbaz, The Rage of Islam (1918), via Internet Archive

Yonan H. Shahbaz · Public domain (published 1918)

Nestorians (Assyrians) from the mountains

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