Carpet, Hand Woven, Silk
date: label: Accession Date
content: 17 Mar 1887
name: label: Donor Name
content: Imam Said bin Sultan Al-Said
notes: label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "PRESENTED TO GOVERNMENT OF THE U.S. IN 1840. SEE: CAT. 187,127, WOOLEN RUG. (SEE ALSO: CAT. NOS. 14,160-165. CASHMERE SHAWLS PRESENTED BY HIS HIGHNESS SEYHD SEYHD, IMAUM OF MUSCAT, TO THE GOVT. OF THE UNITED STATES, IN 1840, AND TRANSFERRED FROM U.S. PATENT OFFICE IN 1858). LOAN TO POLITICAL HIST. (NMAH) APRIL 1955, (FOR EXHIBIT IN FIRST LADIES HALL AT NATIONAL MUSEUM OF AMERICAN HISTORY). LOAN RETURNED FEB 11 1988. SPELLING "IND. IAD". IS NOT UNDERSTOOD. ACC. PAPERS REFER TO THE IMAUM'S NAME AS SEYD SEYD OR SEYHD SEYHD."
label: Notes
content: This rug has both a silk warp and a silk weft.
label: Notes
content: See p. 76 in Rhees, William Jones. 1880. Visitor's guide to the Smithsonian Institution and National Museum, Washington, D.C., Part 3 [Washington]: Judd & Detweiler, Printers and Publishers. https://books.google.com/books?id=L5ZJAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA76#v=onepage&q&f=false . The Oman gifts are described on display in Case 7, including the Persian rug # 14159.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 21 Apr 2025
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Masqat (Muscat), Oman, Asia
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 018815
label: USNM Number
content: E14159-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Carpet
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: 409 cm
label: Width - Object
content: 320 cm