With grateful thanks to Piling who discovered these photos
Magnificent photos of Kurds
From 1880 to 1920, European ethnographic missions as well as local photographers documented the populations of the Middle East and the Caucasus.
The Kurdish people appear in Gallica in all its diversity, according to tribes and regions
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