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The State Museum of the History of Uzbekistan contains a collection of more than three hundred original objects of Dungan culture and everyday life of the late 19th – early 20th century.
Most of them were collected by museum researchers, including the famous ethnographer Turda Mirgiyazov, in 1927 – 1928 in the village of Shortyuba in Kazakhstan and the cities of Tokmak, Pishpek, the village of Kara-Kunguz in Kyrgyzstan.
The collection is dominated by items of the outerwear and underwear for men, women and children, belts, hats, footwear; breast, wall and door decorations; cases for storing toiletries and other accessories, and similar items.
A feature of most products is the presence of bright multicolour embroidery as an obligatory element, the themes of which are extremely diverse. Graceful, multicoloured embroideries of Dungan craftswomen are notable for their high level of execution, variety of subjects, and phenomenal subtlety of work. The themes of embroidery are Dionysian scenes, images of Buddhist relics, motifs and images related to the worship of nature, originating in ancient Chinese mythology. The main ornamental motifs of Dungan embroidery are benevolent symbolism.
You can learn more about the topic in the book-album "The Collection of the State Museum of the History of Uzbekistan" (Part 2, Volume XXVII) in the series "Сultural legacy of Uzbekistan in the world collections".
The general sponsor of the project is the oilfield services company Eriell-Group.
