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Nestorian (Assyrian) woman churning

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Nestorian (Assyrian) woman churning

Place
Urmia · today Iran
Village life

A Nestorian (Assyrian) woman in a headscarf sitting beside a large clay churn laid on its side, with a pot in front of her.

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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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