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Sources

Diba, Layla S. Turkmen Jewelry: Silver Ornaments from the Marshall and Marilyn R. Wolf Collection. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2011.

Mackie, Louise W., and Jon Thompson, eds. Turkmen, Tribal Carpets and Traditions. Washington, D.C.: Textile Museum, 1980.

Schletzer, Dieter, and Reinhold Schletzer. Old Silver Jewellery of the Turkoman: An Essay on Symbols in the Culture of Inner Asian Nomads. Berlin: D. Reimer, 1983.

Thompson, Jon. Timbuktu to Tibet: Exotic Rugs & Textiles from New York Collectors. New York: Hajji Baba Club, 2008.

———. Oriental Carpets: From the Tents, Cottages and Workshops of Asia. New York: Dutton, 1988.


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