The Indigenous
Art of the Hazara!
This is a good sturdy large
native kilim. This is ideal for floor use. Please
note the really good double dyed green. To
achieve this color the native dyers dye it in two
separate processes. In one they are dyed blue and
in the other yellow making green. This piece also
had very good blues.
The Hazara people are descended
from the camp women of Genghis Khan's great camp
the "yeke a'uruy". They have lived in
the Hazarajat in what is currently called
Afghanistan since 1221 AD. The really should have
their own country but through Pakistan sponsored
aggression called Taliban they have again been
enslaved.
In this week as the auction
runs more of the Hazara will die in their fight
to be free and to worship God as they wish. They
continue to fight and die in a forgotten corner
of the world and what little of their native art
that exists is quickly disappearing. Mostly
because no one knows or cares. Maybe I am wrong
but I feel there is value to the indigenous art
form of a people who wish to be free. A long time
ago someone asked me why I was aiding the cause
of another obscure group in another forgotten
corner of the world. All I could say was that
"Peace is not enough, because peace without
freedom is slavery".
Enough of my preaching, just
let me say it is a special rug.
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