Among Zoroastrian burial items, there is a camel-shaped zoomorphic OSTADON lying there. It was found…
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.
Ribbons made of Chinese silk with a woven floral ornament, braid, silver and gold foils were used as decoration of the national costume and other household items. The edge of the product could be trimmered with black thread or edging made of cloth, most often, black. The collection also includes summer and winter, formal and casual footwear, made mainly from white paper fabric. Such shoes are easy to manufacture, in the past they were sewn in every Dungan family.
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.
