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Nestorian (Assyrian) women grinding

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Nestorian (Assyrian) women grinding

Place: Urmia · today Iran
Date: 19th century

Two Nestorian (Assyrian) women in white headscarves sitting on a rug and grinding grain with a stone hand mill.

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Source

Yonan, Persian Women (1898), via Internet Archive

Isaac Malek Yonan (author); photographer not named · Published 1898 in Nashville; public domain.

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