Saddle bags; 2 sewn together; Persian shawl pattern; 10 ivory and 10 dark blue stripes; Greek Key border; Kashmir weave; has wrought iron rings and leather thongs; each is 34 x 20 inches. So-called Beluch rugs are not made in Baluchistan, the southeastern portion of Iran. They are made by nomadic Baluchi tribes hundred of miles to the north in the province of Khurassan.
Donor:
Mardig Y. Parnay
Collection place:
Baluchi, Sistan and Baluchestan Province, Southeast Iran
Culture or time period:
Iranian
Collector:
Mardig Y. Parnay
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Saddlebags (containers)
Function:
1.4 Transportation
Accession date:
1965
Department:
Asia (except western Russia)
Loans:
S1966-1967 #101: Department of Anthropology (UC Berkeley)/John Desmond Clark (April 25, 1967–April 25, 1967), S1967-1968 #87: Department of Anthropology (UC Berkeley)/John Desmond Clark (February 2, 1968–February 5, 1968), and S1971-1972 #9: Department of Anthropology (Stanford Univ.)/Robert L. Hoover (July 28, 1971–August 31, 1971)