10 αποτελέσματα εντός Πρόσωπο Abdul Halim Sharar

Material/Tècnica: argent

In Nuristani houses, wooden chests served as cabinets or cupboards. The whole surface is usually decorated with intertwined motifs, which are inspired by natural forms such as the palm leaves or garlands of flowers that had already appeared in the bas-rel…

While most of Nuristan's wooden sculptures with schematised human forms have been destroyed, they have enabled experts to conjecture that ancient polytheistic and animistic forms of worship used to exist, despite the lack of written testimonies. Alth…

Història de l'objecte: Acquired during the Ethnological Museum's expedition to Afghanistan and Nuristan, performed between August and September, 1971, and led by August Panyella Gómez, director, and Eudald Serra i Güell, anthropologist

Material/Tècnica: fusta / tallada

Material/Tècnica: lapislàtzuli; argent

This column formed part of a 19th-century home in Nuristan, a mountainous region in the east of what is today Afghanistan. The houses of Nuristan traditionally had a single room and were built from stone and wood, with walls covered with a layer of mud mi…