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A Nestorian (Assyrian) musician with a spike fiddle, 1876 engraving

Place: Qudshanis · today Türkiye
Date: 1876

Engraving of a seated Assyrian musician from Persia in a tall hat, playing a kamancheh (spike fiddle), from Cutts's chapter on the evenings at Qudshanis.

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Cutts, Christians under the Crescent in Asia (1877), via Internet Archive

Edward Lewes Cutts (author); wood engraving from a photograph · Public domain (published 1877).

A Nestorian (Assyrian) musician with a spike fiddle, 1876 engraving

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