PhotographAA-0454

Horse litter for carrying Syriac nuns, Midyat, 1890

Place: Midyat · today Türkiye
Date: 1890

A wooden litter slung between two horses, with its attendants, in front of a white house; the archive's Turkish caption says it carried Syriac nuns in Midyat in 1890.

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Arameandom.org, Aramean Archive (community archive)

Horse litter for carrying Syriac nuns, Midyat, 1890

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