Of Gold and Grass: Nomads of Kazakhstan
Bethesda: Foundation for International Arts & Education,
- Curator
- Claudia Chang
- Editor
- Katharine S. Guroff
- Author
- Karl Baipakov, Michael Franklin, Esther Jacobson, Zainolla Samashev, Dzhaksi Taimagambetov, Abdesh Toleubaev
- Abstract
- Exhibition catalogue documenting ancient Kazakh art and material culture from museum collections across Kazakhstan. Features bronzes, gold work, ceramics, jewelry, textiles, and metalwork, with special focus on finds from the 1998–1999 excavations at the Berel frozen burial site, including the Golden Warrior costume. Essays address nomadic life, burial practices, yurt habitation, horsemanship, and caravan trade along the Silk Road. Many objects were exhibited in the United States for the first time.
- Language
- en
- Format
- Book
- Geography
- Kazakhstan
- Subject
- Archaeology, Decorative arts, Ethnography
- Exhibition
- Of Gold and Grass: Nomads of Kazakhstan, Mingei International Museum, San Diego (2006-10-21/2007-05-06)
- Pages
- 180
- Dimensions
- 241×305 mm
- ISBN
- 9780967845142
- Note
- Softcover edition ISBN: 978-0-9678451-5-9.