Carpet
Central Asia, possibly Kazakhstan
19th century
This carpet shares similarity in color and design with pieces made by settled Turkmen tribes such as the Ersari, but this is not a Turkmen rug. There is a tendency to label non-Turkmen rugs from west Central Asia as Uzbek. It is now apparent that the diverse groups of people who comprise the Uzbek population produced many distinct kinds of knotted-pile weavings, but few details are known about their precise origins. There is a possibility, however, that this rug is not Uzbek; instead, it could belong to the sphere of Kazakh weavers, about whose carpets relatively little is known. In the western edge of their territories, the Kazakhs intermingled with Turkmen peoples, which could explain the similarities between this carpet and those of the Ersari.
Carpet
Central Asia, possible Kazakhstan
19th century
Wool; knotted pile
Anonymous loan
Photo by Don Tuttle Photography
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