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Sleeping platforms of the Tiyari

Place: Tiyari · today Türkiye
Date: 1842

Wood engraving of raised wooden sleeping platforms built among trees in a Tiyari village, with armed men standing below. Chapter vignette in Ainsworth's account of his 1840 journey.

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Ainsworth, Travels and Researches in Asia Minor, Mesopotamia, Chaldea, and Armenia, vol. 2 (1842), via Internet Archive (Bayerische Staatsbibliothek copy)

Ainsworth, William Francis · Public domain in the United States (published before 1931)

Sleeping platforms of the Tiyari

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