Among Zoroastrian burial items, there is a camel-shaped zoomorphic OSTADON lying there. It was found…
Hiroshima Prefectural Art Museum was opened in Hiroshima City, the prefecture of Hiroshima, in 1968.
Its main goal was to popularize the power of art through numerous exhibitions and exhibits of the museum collection, purchased or received as a gift. In addition to suzani, there are other types of embroidery, differing by their functional purpose. Thus, joynamaz rugs, with the image of a mikhrab alcove, were used for a praying ceremony; sandalpush was intended to cover a sandal (a small table, used for keeping fect in warmth); dastarkhan was used as a tablecloth.
The content of patterns of some embroidery is obvious from the first glance. Yet, there are ornaments that over time have undergone such a stylization that their original meaning was forgotten. Thus, it is considered that large circles on palak (Tashkent analogue of suzani), even if there are several of them, denote the Moon or moonlight (oy-palak); and small circles are stars or starlight (yulduz-palak). In general, palak represents a figurative image of the night sky on which the moon and the stars shine.
You can learn more about the topic in the book-album "Cultural legacy of Central Asia in Japanese Museums" (volume XX) in the series "Cultural Legacy of Uzbekistan in the World Collections".
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