Object Details
- Collector
- George E. Sakkal
- Donor Name
- George E. Sakkal
- Breast piece of 24K gold sheet fused onto silver backing. Plates are attached to each other with chains and coins. Set with red, green, and blue faceted stones. Etched Acid stamp on back of piece. Donor says that the stamp "identifies the name of the craftsman, [and] Bukhara as the place of origin, and 1915 as the year it was crafted. Item was smuggled out of Uzbekistan and into Afghanistan in 1920 [during the Soviet takeover]." The donor obtained the piece in June 1971 from a rug merchant in Mashad, Iran, who told him he had recently acquired it from a destitute Turkoman family in Afghanistan.
- Record Last Modified
- 1 Dec 2014
- Specimen Count
- 1
- Culture
- Turkoman
- Accession Date
- 8 Jan 2004
- Collection Date
- Jun 1971
- Accession Number
- 2019618
- USNM Number
- E431428-0
- Object Type
- Breast Ornament
- Length - Object
- 52 cm
- Width - Object
- 20 cm
- Place
- Bukhara / Mashad, Uzbekistan / Iran, Asia
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- Anthropology
- NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
- Topic
- Ethnology
- Record ID
- nmnhanthropology_8541592
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/3961915db-e88e-4b49-b16d-75165837af71
