Salt Bag
Object type: Bag
Department: Islamic Art
Date: ca. 1920
Medium: Wool (warp, ground weft, sumak weft, and pile), cotton (white sumak weft and white pile), and goat(?) hair (side finishes); sumak extra-weft wrapping (front); symmetrically knotted pile (bottom edge); weft-faced plain weave with pattern in sumak extra-weft wrapping (back); wrapped warp tassels
Dimensions: H. 21 in. (53.3 cm)
W. 19 in. (48.3 cm)
Classification: Textiles-Woven-Brocade
Geography: From    Western Iran Bakhtiari tribe 
Credit line: Gift of Inger G. and William B. Ginsberg, 2015
Accession year: 2015