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Maliks of the Assyrian mountain tribes at Baqubah, 1919

Place: Baqubah · today Iraq
Date: 1919

A group of maliks, the chiefs of the Nestorian (Assyrian) mountain tribes from Turkey, in embroidered tribal dress, posed in two rows before the tents of the Baqubah refugee camp in 1919.

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Shedd, The Measure of a Man (1922), via Internet Archive

Mary Lewis Shedd · Public domain (published 1922)

Maliks of the Assyrian mountain tribes at Baqubah, 1919

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