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The Pazyryk Carpet, 6 x 5 ft. |
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Detail of Pazyryk Carpet showing
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Among the articles found in the
Pazyryk tombs were a great many pieces of elegant feltwork, amazingly
perserved in the ice, their colors still vivid.
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Detail of feltwork from Pazyryk tombs |
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Feltwork from the Pazyryk tombs
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Swans in feltwork |
"The Frozen Tombs of Siberia" by Russian anthropologist Sergei Ivanovich Rudenko details the excavations of the Pazyryk Tombs. |
Jan Haag may be reached via e-mail: jhaag@u.washington.edu