EZDI KURDS

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Enterance to the Temple of Ezdi Kurds (1955)

Enterance to the Temple of Ezdi Kurds (2000)

Temple of the "Ezdian Faith" Lalesh, Southern Kurdistan

Ezdi Martyr's Shrine at Bashiqa (1955)

Peacock - a central symbol in the old Kurdish religion the "Ezdian Faith"

Tent of Ezdi Kurds (Chichi) from Sinjar

Konên ÊL û MALBATA ÇÎÇÊ ÊZDÎ.. PISTÎ 150 SALAN - CARA YEKÊ BELAV DIBE!!


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

         Arab friends of the Jebouri tribe & places: 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.


Subject: Portraits of Kurds & Arabs, some with their names

Medium: Watercolour

Size: 11 x 27 cms. approx

Foundation For Kurdish Library & Museum