PhotographAA-0447
Assyrian woman spinning with a drop spindle in Challik, Barwar, 1951
An Assyrian woman in a polka-dot dress, wide belt and wrapped headdress stands in the village lane of Challik in Barwar, spinning wool with a drop spindle, while villagers gather in the shade behind her. Photographed by Wilfred Thesiger between May and September 1951.
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Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford (Thesiger collection), via Wikimedia Commons copy
Wilfred Patrick Thesiger · Tagged public domain on Commons; Thesiger died in 2003, so the photograph is likely still in copyright (Pitt Rivers Museum).
