KURDISH TENTS OF SHINGAL
[(''SINJAR'')]

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Artist: Frederick CharlesCooper (c.1810-c.1880)

           was a traveller, diplomat & artist, Consul to Queen Victoria in Mesopotamia

         (1850-1855) & Kurdistan.

He made many drawings, of which this is one, which included his

         Belled Sinjar, (Kurdistan) Kowkoob cemetry,

         Sinjar minaret, Akhtar, the Chichi Kurds, the Khadour, etc.

Many of his drawings was used by Sir Austen Henry Layard for his archaelogical publications.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Austen_Henry_Layard

Subject: Portraits of Kurds

Medium: Watercolour

Yezidi Kurd and other people

ŞINGAL & ÇIYAYÊ ŞINGALÊ

Ne Sincar e, ŞINGAL e
Şincar bi erebî ye
Şengal jî bi tirkî ye

Lê bi kurdî ŞINGAL e.

THE BRITISH MUSEUM

YEZIDI KURDS