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Jilu Assyrians at the bazaar, Baqubah refugee camp

Place: Baqubah · today Iraq
Date: 1919

Women and girls in headscarves and long dresses crowd outside a reed-roofed stall, with others queuing behind. Rowden captioned it "Group in Bazaar -- Jelus" (Jilu Assyrians) at Baqubah, about 1919.

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Lucerna Magic Lantern Web Resource; Royal Albert Memorial Museum, Exeter (Rowden Collection)

Jilu Assyrians at the bazaar, Baqubah refugee camp

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