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Assyrian women in coin headdresses at a wedding party, Ser Amadia

Place: Ser Amadia
Date: 1939

Close view of young women in turbans, one decorated with rows of coins and an embroidered jacket, seated together at a wedding. Print captioned "At the wedding party"; photographed by Col. R.W. Cardew in Ser Amadia, north of Amadiya, 1939.

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Julian Cardew (Flickr), photograph by Col. R.W. Cardew

Assyrian women in coin headdresses at a wedding party, Ser Amadia

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