Prayer rug

Museum number:
9-15033
Permalink:
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Alternate number:
1167 (original number)
Accession number:
Acc.3032 and Acc.3032.04
Description:
Prayer rug. Cotton, silk. Plain weave, embroidered. Natural ground, varicolored designs. Floral motives. Unfinished. 39 inches by 24 inches.
Donor:
Design Department (UC Berkeley) and Henrietta F. Brewer
Collection place:
Bokhara, Uzbekistan
Verbatim coll. place:
TURKESTAN: Bokhara Object Label: Asia Minor
Materials:
Linen (material) and Silk
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Embroidery (visual works) and Prayer rugs
Function:
5.1 Religion and Divination: Objects and garb associated with practices reflecting submission, devotion, obedience, and service to supernatural agencies
Accession date:
1974
Department:
Asia (except western Russia)
Dimensions:
width 24 inches and length 39 inches
Images:
Hearst Museum object titled Prayer rug, accession number 9-15033, described as Prayer rug. Cotton, silk. Plain weave, embroidered. Natural ground, varicolored designs. Floral motives. Unfinished. 39 inches by 24 inches.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Prayer rug, accession number 9-15033, described as Prayer rug. Cotton, silk. Plain weave, embroidered. Natural ground, varicolored designs. Floral motives. Unfinished. 39 inches by 24 inches.

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