Ancient trousers from steppe nomad

[Michael Kerr]

Alanus, have you read 'The Mummies of Urumchi' by Elizabeth Wayland Barber. She writes about the Tarim mummies but her focus is on the weaving patterns used in the well preserved clothing, blankets and even their tents. To back up what you say that Scythians/Saka/Tocharians wore more than just skins and furs she had a picture in her book of one of the garments which was a woollen brocade of Argali sheep standing on a red border found in tomb 4 of Cherchen. A very early depiction of real life art on the cold and lonely steppes.


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Regards
Michael Kerr