Portrait Rug (Ahmad Shah Massoud)

From the press release:
Exhibition Opening - From Combat to Carpet: The Art of Afghan War Rugs

Museum of International Folk Art

Portrait Rug (Ahmad Shah Massoud)

Unidentified artist, likely Baluch

Knotted wool, Afghanistan (dated after 2001)

Acquired in Kabul (Afghanistan), 2006

Credit: Image courtesy of Annemarie Sawkins and Enrico Mascelloni


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