Igsalyk, Igsalik, Spindle Bag pics - info?

[James Blanchard Junior Member Find all posts View Profile Close James Blanchard]

Hi all,

A couple of Yomut bags of this ilk in my collection.

Cheers,

James

[Joe Lawrence Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close Joe Lawrence]

Thank you for sharing those James. The 1st one is very unusual…at least for my eyes.

[Joe Lawrence Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close Joe Lawrence]

Steve,

I just completed reading the article you wrote in Hali issue 69 June/July 1993. It was very well written and you really established a concrete analogy….we don’t know much about them and there is still much to learn. You referenced two sources for either having a picture of one in use or they said they had a picture in their possession. I would really like to see these examples.

My layman’s approach to this subject is that these bags were made for a purpose and more than likely had multiple uses. It’s time like these that we wish there would have been a written history on the tribes.

Again, thanks for the tip on the article and it was a pleasure to read.

[Steve Price Administrator Find all posts View Profile Close Steve Price]

Thanks, Joe. I'm sure these were utilitarian, and were probably referred to as spoon bags, spindle bags, etc. depending on what was in them most of the time. It's like my socks drawer, underwear drawer, etc. - it's just a way for me to identify them and they could change names tomorrow if I decided to change what I put in them.

Best,

Steve Price

[Erik Persson Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close Erik Persson]

Steve recommended Peter Andrews as a good source in this thread earlier, and I have now ordered some of his book that I did not have before. His quite interesting homepage is here:

https://andrewspeter.info/

[Steve Price Administrator Find all posts View Profile Close Steve Price]

Hi Erik - Peter Andrews is an excellent source of information on Turkmen. That was his specialty as an academic anthropologist, and his wife is a Yomud woman. He doesn't present romantic myths.

Steve Price

[Chuck Wagner Administrator Find all posts View Profile Close Chuck Wagner]

Hi Joe, et al.,

Not surprisingly, bags with this particular geometry - and rumored use - are not restricted to Turkman weavings, and are found in work from other nomadic groups. Here are a Luri and a Bakhtiari bag with similar characteristics:

Regards
Chuck