Armenian women and children of Tigranakert (Diyarbakır)

The photograph shows Armenian women and children of Tigranakert (Diyarbakır). It was taken before 1915. The names of the people shown have not been preserved.

There are three women, two standing and one seated, and two children, a boy and a girl. The women wear traditional dress and headdresses, with several strands of necklaces around their necks. The seated woman's velvet dress is embroidered with flowers. A patterned rug lies on the floor.

According to the source, these pearl-decorated headdresses were specific to the Armenian women of Tigranakert. The photograph has been kept in Armenian photographic archives as a memory of a community that suffered greatly during the Armenian Genocide.