Stone Carpets

Part of carpet, sewn up by five parts, pattern tuned; single, multi-color wool yarn with star pattern. Thinner twine in the direction of warfare than in the wrapped. Most stitches ...

Photograph of a row of children seated at a loom weaving carpets in the modern-day state of Jammu and Kashmir, taken by an unknown photographer in the 1890s. Carpet-making was said...

Tobacco, smoking, ritual, pipes, tobacco bags Tobacco was a stimulant used by the indigenous people in large parts of North, Central and South America as a sedative, medicine again...

Pipe bag; Lakota; ca. 1870-1880 \nHide, glass beads, porcupine quills, pigments; l. 40 cm. (incl. fringe); w. 13 cm.\nRMV 3158-9; purchased from art dealer Leendert Van Lier, Amste...

Pendant in twelve-pointed form, made of marble (or alabaster?) from the place Haci Bektash. The pendant is worn on a cord around the neck by followers of the Sufi order of the Bekt...

A worked stone of the Roman period, dating from the 2nd-3rd centuries.The stone depicts a probably female head in the Romano-British style, with a head on a neck in relief on a rec...

Jade pendant in a twelve-pointed form. The pendant is worn on a cord around the neck by followers of the Sufi order of the Bektashi's. The pendant is part of the costume of the Bek...

Marble pendant in a twelve-pointed form. The pendant is worn on a cord around the neck by followers of the Sufi order of the Bektashi's. The pendant is part of the costume of the B...