A RARE YOMUD ASMALYK

This is a rare example of a white ground Asmalyk. Made in pairs by a bride as part of her dowry, Asmalyk weavings would decorate camels during a wedding procession. A very similar example is illustrated in E. Herrmann Von Uschak bis Yarkand:Seltene Orientteppiche aus Vier Jahrhunderten, Munich, 1979, no. 91, p. 140. Both share the same unusual central ram's horn motifs in the field and jewelry amulets in the upper field reserve--all auspicious symbols appropriate to a weaving associated with a wedding.