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A Nestorian (Assyrian) girl carrying water, 1843 lithograph

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A Nestorian (Assyrian) girl carrying water, 1843 lithograph

Place
Persia · today Iran
Date
1843
IllustrationVillage life

Hand-coloured lithograph of a Nestorian girl in a red dress, green trousers and white headscarf, carrying a clay water jar on her back.

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Source

Perkins, A Residence of Eight Years in Persia (1843), via Internet Archive

Thayer & Co., lithographers, Boston · Public domain (published 1843)

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