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GUSN-305359
Prayer rug with geometric pattern on blue field. Serrated leaf and wineglass border. Repeating triangle guard. At one end S-sided ghul to be oriented towards Mecca.
prayer rugs
wool (hair)
Rug, Prayer
Rug, Prayer
Original To Nickels-Sortwell House (Wiscasset, Me.),
Unknown
Middle East
42 1/2 x 30 1/4 (HxW) (inches)
Bequest of Frances Sortwell
1958.436
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