Sumak bag face
N°
06098
Period
Circa 1800
Origin
Moghan-Savalan plain, Northwest Persia
Materials
Wool
Status
Available
Size
34 x 28 cm1'1" x 11"
This Sumak bag face is an early chanta bag face. It is the front of a minor, personal bag, very finely woven with silk ground wefts. Here, a central hexagon enclosing a stylised zoomorphic motif is surrounded by two different mirror-image pairs of what appear to be fertility figures. The ancient language displayed by some of these tribal objects imparts a truly archaic feeling to the composition, giving the impression of being confronted with the earliest, purest form of a particular design.