Woven wool Kazak rug with center panel of a red field with two large medallion shapes in it, one green and one blue. Each medallion contains red and white s-shaped clouds and a black and red swastika in the center. The field outside the medallions contains birds, dogs, tarantulas, crabs, a scorpion, and eight-pointed stars. There are three borders. Two have a dark brown field and contain multi-colored eight-point stars connected by hexagons. The middle border has a white field with multi-colored eight-point stars connected by leaves. The edges are bound in red.
rugs
wool (hair)
cotton (textile)
Kazak
Rug
"Put over Kazak BWP" (Handwritten paper tag formerly attached to the lower left corner.)
Original to Phillips House (Salem, Mass.),
P088
Unknown
2/16 x 51 3/16 (HxW) (inches)
Gift of the Stephen Phillips Memorial Charitable Trust for Historic Preservation
2006.44.511
Caucasus (Asia) [general region]
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