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Two Assyrian Levies in mountain dress at Zakho camp, 1922

Place: Zakho · today Iraq
Date: 1922

Two Assyrian men of the Levies in mountain dress, embroidered jackets, striped trousers and tall felt hats, stand at the Levy camp at Zakho, November 1922.

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Gertrude Bell Archive, Newcastle University

Bell, Gertrude Margaret Lowthian · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 (rights holder: "No known copyright restrictions")

Two Assyrian Levies in mountain dress at Zakho camp, 1922

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