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Oriental rugs, antique and modern (1922)

Hawley, W. A. (Walter Augustus), 1863-1920 · New York, Dodd, Mead · leaf 400

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r would announce an intended raid,hundreds or even thousands would meet at the appointed rendez-vous prepared to blindly follow him. Sometimes it was through thepasses that looked down into the fertile valleys of Northern Persia.Stealthily creeping through them they would fall unexpectedly uponan… … Plate 51. Turkoman Prayer Rug, which according to A. Bogolubow has the Typical Pinde Pattern CENTRAL ASIATIC RUGS 239 children had taken refuge. With the fall of that stronghold and theterrible punishment that followed, the power of the Tekkes wascompletely crushed; and a people whose ancestors for…

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