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Football Gabbeh!

Football Gabbeh!

  • Number 1064

  • Material Wool

  • Style Pictorial

  • Origin Gabbeh

  • Type Tribal

  • Size 156 x 113

  • Age 1940

Story

A unique tribal gabbeh depicting a football game rendered in a nomadic manner--cute, charming & utterly splendid. In a way it shows how even remote tribal societies were catching up to the modern world in the early 1900s. For some reason the weaver threw in a few gazelles on the side. Note how all the players are facing the viewer, as if posing for a photograph. Awesomeness!

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