PhotographAA-0443

Dancer and drummers in national dress, likely the Assyrian khigga, Iraq, 1942

Place

Iraq

Date

1942

A dancer in striped national dress and headcloth sweeps a handkerchief while a drummer and another performer stand behind him on open ground. IWM gives no caption for this frame; it belongs to the sequence that includes CBM 2230, captioned as Assyrian dancers and musicians performing the khigga, so it likely shows the same performance, possibly at RAF Habbaniya.