Berzeri babik · Miran tribe
Berzeri
A Kurdish family from the Kocer region of Derik in Rojava (northeast Syria), and from villages on the Iraqi side of the border. A babik (Bavik, Tîre) of the nomadic Miran tribe.
The name Berzeri comes from Berê Zer in Kurdish — “yellow stones” or “yellow lands.” Among the Miran, families and babiks (tîre) were often named after the geography of the place they usually resettled in the Zozan (summer pastures).
From the journal
All →Old Social Beliefs of the Berzeris
The Berzeri babik's taboos and superstitions as recorded by Dr. Ali Salih Mirani in his book on the history of the Miran tribe, and how these beliefs have mostly faded today.
Kurdish nomad tent in Armenia, 1936
A 1936 chromolithograph of a Kurdish nomad tent — beauty and hardship held in one frame of reşmal life, the black house.
A Family of Kurdish Nomads, from Voyage en Perse, 1825
An 1825 French School lithograph — a Kurdish nomad family from Gaspard Drouville’s Voyage en Perse: tent, flock, daily life, and tribe.