Gold breast piece set with colored stones
date: label: Accession Date
content: 8 Jan 2004
label: Collection Date
content: Jun 1971
name: label: Collector
content: George E. Sakkal
label: Donor Name
content: George E. Sakkal
notes: label: Notes
content: Breast piece of 24K gold sheet fused onto silver backing. Plates are attached to each other with chains and coins. Set with red, green, and blue faceted stones. Etched Acid stamp on back of piece. Donor says that the stamp "identifies the name of the craftsman, [and] Bukhara as the place of origin, and 1915 as the year it was crafted. Item was smuggled out of Uzbekistan and into Afghanistan in 1920 [during the Soviet takeover]." The donor obtained the piece in June 1971 from a rug merchant in Mashad, Iran, who told him he had recently acquired it from a destitute Turkoman family in Afghanistan.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 1 Dec 2014
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Bukhara / Mashad, Uzbekistan / Iran, Asia
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Turkoman
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 2019618
label: USNM Number
content: E431428-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Breast Ornament
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: 52 cm
label: Width - Object
content: 20 cm