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Tent of the Cheif (sic) of the Chichi Kurds

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Date

1850

Description

Undated watercolour and pencil drawing on paper mounted on card, showing the interior of a large tent containing assembled tribal dignitaries with the important foreign guests seated on a carpet in the foreground with coffee being served on the left; one of these is standing and wears a frock coat, red cap and pistol at his belt. Layard is probably the seated figure wearing a peaked cap and jacket.

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CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

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Location

Sinjar, Iraqi Kurdistan, Iraq

Country

Iraq