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Bag face
Turkmenistan, Turkoman, Chodor tribe (att.); late 19th century
Collected by Mardig Y. Parnay, ca. 1915, acc. 1965.
9–6520
Part of a collection of over 100 rugs, this piece was donated by a Berkeley rug dealer in order to supplement Hearst’s earlier donation of Oriental carpets and rugs. The collector noted that he had used it in his home. It is a section of a large storage bag, a juval, the largest and most frequently used storage bag of Turkoman nomadic pastoralists. They were made in pairs, two pile-knotted faces on a plain weft backing, so that the two bags could drape over a camel or horse. Used to store clothing and cooking utensils around the walls of a yurt, it is decorated with the distinctive repeating Turkoman motifs called guls.
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