Research Catalog

Title

Tent band, tent bag : classic Turkmen weaving / Cassin, Hoffmeister.

Author

Cassin, Jack.

Publication

Coburg/Esbach : Magna Mater Verlag, c1988.

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Additional Authors

Hoffmeister, Peter

Description

127, [1] p. : ill. (some col.), maps; 25 cm.

Summary

"The origins of the Turkmen, the nomads of south-west Central Asia responsible for the weavings illustrated in this book have never been easy to understand and the presentation herein of new perspectives examining the prehistory of the tribal areas in which they were known to have inhabited provides intriguing answes to this question. This approach details the many parallel intrinsic variables of settlement locations, agricultural methods and animal husbandry in addition to the traditions surrouning religion, burth and death and are based upon factual evidence recently made available by the latest archaeological researcg, Forty examples of their fascinating weavings have been drawn from the private collections of the authors and when seen within such an explanatory framework, the enigmatic designs they display now reveal undiscovered associations and meanings with mankind's long developmental history."--Book jacket.

Subject

• Cassin, Jack > Art collections > Catalogs
• Hoffmeister, Peter > Art collections > Catalogs
• Rugs, Turkmen > Catalogs
• Weaving > Turkmenistan > Catalogs

Note

• English and German.
• Discusses works in the collections of Jack Cassin and Peter Hoffmeister.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references: p. [128]

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

OCLC

• 34129439
• SCSB-10492283

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library