EditorialOriental carpet, Oriental carpet of knotted wool, the midfield of which is decorated with rows of botehs. Five edges with a simple geometric pattern. Probably woven by Afshar nomads., Afshar nomaden (possibly), Fars, 1850 - 1900, wool, h 257 cm ? w 155 cm.
EditorialSalt Lake, Thibet. There are hundreds of salt lakes in the northern plateaus of Tibet, including the highest salt lake in the world. Nomads made journeys to these remote waters cradled by snow peaks, returning with salt-laden yak caravans to barter the...
EditorialA group of nomads, with two camels in the background . Die Nigritier. Eine anthropologisch-ethnologische Monographie, etc. Berlin, Leipzig [printed], 1876, etc. Source: 10006.g.4, plate XX. Language: German.
EditorialSalt Lake, Thibet. There are hundreds of salt lakes in the northern plateaus of Tibet, including the highest salt lake in the world. Nomads made journeys to these remote waters cradled by snow peaks, returning with salt-laden yak caravans to barter the...
EditorialSilver tetradrachm of Azes I, Scythian, from Gandhara and Taxila, north-west Pakistan, 57-10 BCE. Appropriate for a ruler whose ancestors were nomads from Central Asia, his coin image shows a king with standard and spear, mounted on horseback. CM 1894-...
EditorialPastoral Scene: Nomads with Sheep and Cattle, 1609?64, Brush, brown, red-brown, blue, and white paint, on brownish paper, 10 1/16 x 14 1/4in. (25.6 x 36.2cm), Drawings, Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione (Il Grechetto) (Italian, Genoa 1609?1664 Mantua).
EditorialKalmyk nomads preparing to migrate - dismantling ghers, loading wagons near a tomb 1, and typical gher life with women milking cow, preparing a cow hide, men playing draughts. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Bertuch's "Bilderbuch fur Kinder" (P...
EditorialMan and woman of Morocco, a Moorish merchant, above, and a Berber man in a cloak and Moorish nomads below. Handcoloured lithograph from Friedrich Wilhelm Goedsche's "Vollstaendige V?lkergallerie in getreuen Abbildungen" (Complete Gallery of Peoples in ...
EditorialSilver tetradrachm of Azes I, Scythian, from Gandhara and Taxila, north-west Pakistan, 57-10 BCE. Appropriate for a ruler whose ancestors were nomads from Central Asia, his coin image shows a king with standard and spear, mounted on horseback. CM 1894-...
EditorialOasis Wadi Feiran (the bibical Rephidim), still inhabited by many nomads. Foot of Mount Serbal, one of highest points of the Sinai range. Here the Israelites passed during exodus on the way to Mount Sinai.