PhotographAA-0673

Assyrian men of Upper Tiyari, with Odisho Rais Oshana of Ashita

Place: Iraq
Date: 1930s

Men of the Upper Tiyari tribe, in suits, caps and a few in tribal dress, pose in two rows before a dark cloth hung on a stone wall. The caption names Odisho Rais Oshana of Ashita, Lower Tiyari, among them.

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Source

Malek, The British Betrayal of the Assyrians (1935), via Internet Archive (Beth Mardutho Library copy)

Unknown photographers (in Yusuf Malek, The British Betrayal of the Assyrians) · First published in 1935, printed in the United States.

Assyrian men of Upper Tiyari, with Odisho Rais Oshana of Ashita

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