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Three Little Known Types of Tribal Storage Bag

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 2022

Parviz Tanavoli
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In the literature a variety of flatwoven tribal bags are referred to generically as kīsah. In the tribal setting, however, these bags are differentiated according to function, e.g., namakdān, “salt bag“; qāshuqdān, “spoon holder”. This short article introduces three little known types of tribal storage bag: the qāshuqdān; the qalyāndān, “water pipe bag“;and the chupuqdān, “pipe holder”.

Type
Post-Safavid Carpets and Textiles
Information
Iranian Studies , Volume 25 , Issue 1-2: The Carpets and Textiles of Iran: New Perspectives in Research , 1992 , pp. 137 - 140
Copyright
Copyright © Association For Iranian Studies, Inc 1992

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Footnotes

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Translated from the original Persian by Parvaneh Pourshariati.

References

1 Although several types of tribal container are discussed by Wertime, John, “The Names, Types and Functions of Nomadic Weaving in Iran”, Yoruk, ed. Landreau, A. N. (Pittsburgh, 1978), pp. 23-26Google Scholar, the three kinds described in this article are not.

2 Kulī or lulī are the poorest of the nomads. Although their lifestyle is similar to that of the tribes, the latter do not recognize them as tribal. The kulī own neither lands nor herds, but make their living through the manufacture and sale of utensils such as scissors, beating combs for carpet weaving, and spoons. Some of them are also musicians who perform at tribal weddings.

3 An interesting group of fancy spoons is illustrated in J. and Gluck, S., eds., A Survey of Persian Handicraft (Tehran, New York, London, and Ashia, Japan, 1977), p. 374.Google Scholar

4 The Shahsevan qāshuqdāns consist of three pouches as well as netting and a band: Tanavoli, P. Shahsevan: Iranian Rugs and Textiles (New York, 1985), pp. 380-91Google Scholar and pls. 261-2; 265-68.

5 Ibid., p. 256.

6 For more information on the history of tobacco in Iran, seel. Pūr-Dāvud, I., “Tambākū- Tūtūn”, in Hurmuzdnāmah (Tehran, 1331 Sh/1953), pp. 190-221.Google Scholar

7 Pūr-Davaud, op. cit., ibid.

8 Tavernier, J. B., The Six Voyages of John Baptiste Tavernier (London. 1678), Book V, Chap. III, p. 206.Google Scholar

9 Da'arat al-Ma'ārif Fārsī, ed. Musahab, G. (Tehran, 1356 Sh/1977), pp. 2079-80.Google Scholar A seventeenth century drawing of a qalyān smoker by Riza ‘Abbasi is illustrated in Welch, A. Shah Abbas and the Arts of Isfahan (New York, 1973), p. 29Google Scholar.

10 The lower part of some qalyāns terminates in a sharp point, but this can be accommodated by the slit in the lower edge of the qalyāndān.