PhotographAA-0367

Assyrian women in the oak woods of Shaqlawa, c. 1970

Place: Shaqlawa · today Iraq
Date: 1970

Four women, two in traditional dress, stand by a stone wall under the oak trees of Shaqlawa in northern Iraq, where Assyrian families kept summer houses, around 1970. A colour photograph.

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Assyrian Archive (@ArchiveAssyria on X; assyrianarchive.ca), via Wikimedia Commons

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Assyrian women in the oak woods of Shaqlawa, c. 1970

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